AN: Ogremen: Holy shit folks, this chapter has become our LONGEST chapter yet! Seriously people, not including the ANs, this chapter is 22,983 words long! It also spans about 38 pages of MS Word! Owo Also we DEEPLY apologize for the wait as this chapter was, for the most part, done already, it just needed to wait till LF was ready due to the last update before those AN chapters about how Oracle's computer had to be repaired XP Anyway, we REALLY hope you enjoyed the Danny Phantom arc while it lasted, lol So, anyway, without further ado, now, a word from the Mistress of Prophecies herself, Oracle!

Oracle: Believe it or not we've had this chapter sitting around waiting to be posted for a while now. The main reason we didn't post it was cause we wanted to have a pattern of one vegas chapter, then one rewrite chapter, but then my pc went down and we had to hold off posting anything. But here we are now with my pc working again and thus we can get back to writing and posting like we were before. Sorry for the long wait and thanks to everyone for sticking with us and for all your kind words. You are all awesome people whom we're glad to share this story with.

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~New York City, Avengers Floor of Auror Corp.~

All of the Avengers, including Harry's extended family, thanks to Lily Jr. adopting so many aunts and uncles, were relaxing when Phil Coulson came in, whistling a jaunty tune, and, dare it be said, a spring in his step. Immediately half of those present gulped in fear. A happy Phil Coulson, was a dangerous Phil Coulson, as whenever it appeared from the wild that happy, it meant he had the winning hand, it was one of the reasons he never won at poker against any of the family except for Nym, he just couldn't keep a straight poker face around friends and family. As such, the first to question his happy mood was Lily Jr. who ran up to him and tackled his legs.

"Crunchy munchy?" she asked happily, referring to some of the things she ate now by crushing them with her strengthening teeth.

Phil chuckled and pulled out a pen cap, "Here, this should tide you over for now," he replied with a smile, causing Lily to pout a bit before smiling again. She was just happy that her favorite uncle still gave her munchies. Everyone else kept taking them from her!

Nat, deciding this wouldn't be an appropriate topic conversation for children, shooed Lily Jr. from the room, much to her confusion and pouting and telling the girl that if she behaved, she would get to chase her mother around later. This caused Lily to smile and grin before leaving the room and heading to her own room.

Nat then turned to Phil, with a serious glare on her face. "Talk!" she ordered calmly.

Phil sweated a bit under Nat's glare, after all, the mother of his godchildren she may be, but a feared interrogator and torturer she still was. So, sitting down, he took out his laptop and connected it to the TV, once it was all hooked up, he turned it on and started the video.

Phil cleared his throat, and began to speak as the video began playing, "So, I was going over the footage with my team, of Harry's surveillance on his 'vacation'," he began, and stopped as he could feel Nat's anger directed at him, and he turned to her and gave her one of his looks of apologies, making her realise she would be giving Fury a piece of her mind later, before he continued. "As I was saying, I was going over the footage, when one of my youngest agents screamed out in anger the following words, 'Lucky bastard!'. Needless to say, I rushed over to investigate, and after watching the footage, well, I will be honest, I laughed," Phil concluded. Seeing their expectant looks, and not wanting to spell it out for them, he said, simply, "Tony's betting pool has some winners," he said with as straight a face as he could manage.

Nat's glare had turned to a frown eventually, but now was a really intense glare once more. "What were the bets?" she asked simply, calmly, but with an accusatory tone.

Nym knew she would be a suspect, so decided to be honest with Nat. "Tony started a betting pool on whether Harry's 'vacation', if it could be called that, would be peaceful, or result in wedding bells..." she stopped when Nat's glare snapped to her now.

"The wager?" Nat's cool and collected response was straight to the point.

Nym gulped again, more fearful, "Um, money and favors, it was up to the better to decide which they chose..." she offered helpfully.

"I will be investigating who bet what, and took which side..." Nat said simply before walking off to inform Pepper.

Once Nat was gone, Nym immediately turned to Phil, "So, enough stalling, play the video so I can see my new sister wife!" she all but demanded gleefully.

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~Amity Park, Fenton Works~

In Maddie bedroom, there were two groans, one feminine and one masculine. As the two voice's owners woke up, the first to speak was the man.

"Ugh, I feel like I drank ten bottles of Ogden's Finest..." he groaned.

The woman soon replied with, "I don't know what that is, but, from how it sounds, it might be a blessing right now if we had some..." she groaned as well.

As they both sat up, and looked at one another, they groaned, again.

"Sorry Daniel, I don't really remember what happened last night..." Maddie said as began to take a cross legged position, only to stop as she realised she was nude. She blushed as she covered herself with the covers of her bed.

Harry, meanwhile, was trying to clear his mind and recall what happened last night, just like Nym had taught him when he was learning Occlumency, it hadn't helped that she had been teaching him in the most enticing set of lingerie at the time. While it had taken a while, he had mastered the skill, which was paying dividends now, well, as much as it could anyway, something was interfering with his memory recall. "I remember heading to the campgrounds lake..." he began.

"Meeting you there," Maddie added with a weak smile, causing Harry to nod.

"And then, we were...discussing your husband's death…I think..." he continued, this time getting a nod from Maddie. "Then...my mind…it's foggy on the recall..." he said, sounding frustrated.

Maddie nodded, "I know what you mean...my memory also seems...hazy...like it usually is after I return home from visiting Jack's grave and have a drink..." she replied, then her eyes widened in shock and surprise, "Wait...I remember a church..." she said.

"And a priest!" Harry added causing Maddie to nod and his blood to run cold.

"And...then...oh fuck," Maddie said with widened eyes at the same time Harry said the same thing.

The door to Maddie's bedroom opened and the pair only had time to hear two voices, one saying, "I doubt she's up yet," and the other going, "Mom have you seen my phone?" before both Danny and Jazz appeared in the doorway. Danny's eyes went wide in horror at what he was seeing while Jazz looked away with a small smile.

"Well, looks like mom is up after all, along with Mr. Radcliff," Jazz commented while Danny was opening and closing his mouth like a fish as he just stared between his mother and Harry, Jazz then gently guided Danny away and shut the door while calling back, "I'll make breakfast, feel free to join us when you are ready." Before the door was fully shut.

Sighing Harry raised his left hand to run it through his hair while commenting, "Well, that just happened..." when he saw the new Lords ring on his finger, and groaned, 'Why does this keep happening!?' he wondered to himself as he facepalmed himself with both hands, dreading the talk he's going to get when he returns home and Nat finds out. So much for not looking for a wife on this trip.

Maddie meanwhile, sighed, wondering what to say to her kids, when she saw Harry palm his face in his hands. However, as she reached over to place her left hand on his shoulder, she stopped, seeing a new, thicker, and bigger ring, then she could ever remember seeing, was on her ring finger. She groaned, "So it was real, or rather, its real, we really got married last night..." she said in a lost for words tone of voice.

Harry, fearing the awkward silence that was quickly descending on the two of them said, "Maddie, I...haven't exactly been honest since I arrived here..." he winced, expecting yelling, cursing, maybe a punch or kick.

Maddie frowned at him. "What do you mean you 'haven't been honest'?" She asked as she looked at him, wondering just what he had been dishonest about.

Harry winced, he might have preferred the yelling, cursing, or even a physical, compared to the 'Nat treatment'. So, letting out a deep sigh, Harry began to explain, "First, I would like you to know that, I really am on vacation, that part I was honest about, along with the offer of getting Jazz an internship at Auror Corp.," he said, "I was also honest about my likes, interests and dislikes...for the most part..." he continued, "What I wasn't honest about, was my name..." he said, panic rising inside him at how she would react to this next part. "My name isn't really Daniel Radcliffe..." he began awkwardly, "In fact, its a cover name I had created for when I want to fly under the radar..." he said, partially realising he was stalling causing him to wince again, "My real name...is Harry James Potter..." he finished. He tensed up now, expecting her to explode, or yell, or curse, hell, he wouldn't mind a physical blow if it allowed her to vent the anger he was sure she felt.

Maddie stared at him for a few seconds before looking away with a sigh. "I see," She said before wrapping the covers around herself as she got off the bed. She was silent for a moment before telling him, "I'm going to take a shower. We'll speak about this when I'm done." She then grabbed some clothes and headed for the bathroom. Technically she was stalling in her response to this as she was overloaded at the moment with the sudden marriage, being walked in on by her kids, and now learning the man she thought she knew wasn't fully the man she thought he was. She needed time to work this out and the only way to do so would be locked away in the shower. She also had to deal with the guilt of having gotten married on the same day as the anniversary of Jack's death.

Harry flinched, he then sighed as he realised how she must be feeling...overwhelmed. To be honest, so was he, just not to the same extent. He then, after putting on his underwear and pants took a look around the room, taking in Maddie's bedroom. "Huh..." he said, seeing signs that this was 'Maddie's Place' all over the room, from the various photos of her and her family, to the bits of tech lying around. Then his eyes fell on the stuff in the corner in three boxes. One was full to bursting with different types of handcuffs, from fuzzy ones to antiques. Harry wasn't sure he wanted to know if Maddie was secretly into Domination…'Ok, I need to stop thinking like Nym...' he thought to himself flatly.

After going over to the second box, he noticed it had a bunch of celebrity photos, a book titled 'Famous Fabulous Autographs' which was something that caused him to quirk an eyebrow. The final and biggest, box in the corner. The first thing he saw as he looked down at it, was a notebook with a title written in pencil on its front.

Picking it up he read it quietly in his mind. 'The Phantom and the DC Queen?' he wondered in thought curiously. Putting it down gently, he put it down before picking up the next one, and frowned at the title. 'The Ghost Hunter and the Spiderman?' he questioned in his head in confusion, then he smirked, he would love teasing Peter later about this. Putting it aside, he picked up another notebook, this one looked to have been read a lot, or at least handled thoroughly, 'The Phantom's Lair and the Invisible Woman?' he read in his mind. He really hoped there wasn't one about the Phantom and a ghost hunter in here. Sighing, and almost afraid at what the next booklet might be titled, he wasn't disappointed with his amusement. The fourth booklet from the top wasn't as well worn as the last one had been, in fact, it looked like it had been buried on purpose, 'The Phantom's Lair and the Return of the Spiderman?' he reads, he really didn't want to think about that one. As he put that last...whatever it was down, he began to look at the photos of Maddie's family.

He was going to take a shot in the dark and guess that the man in the orange and black jumpsuit with black hair in most of the photos was Jack. As he looked at more and more photos of Maddie either hugging her son, kissing his cheek when he was young, or of Danny messing around, he began to notice similarities to the Phantom he had met that day over two weeks ago. Well, if his thoughts proved right, he might be able to help Danny out, on the other, it begged the question of how Danny got his powers, that is, until he remembered what Maddie said about the day Jack died. 'Well, that just gives more credence to my notion that Danny and the Phantom are two sides of the same coin...' he thought.

He then began to think about how he was going to explain to Maddie about magic, as he was sure that magic was somehow involved with their marriage, that, or some other worldly power had interfered in their lives. There was also him having to notify his family, MACUSA, and of course track down the one who had married him and Maddie to find out what the hell a wizarding priest was doing in Amity that night. Sighing, at the workload he had just given himself thanks to this little slip he started to stress about it before hearing the water stop, signalling Maddie's shower was over. This wouldn't be a problem if the proof of his snooping wasn't clear as day. Harry had to rush back to put everything he moved back into place before returning to the bed to look for his top in a panic, but being unable to find it.

As he was about to toss the bed over, thinking his shirt might have, somehow, ended up underneath the mattress or something, wouldn't be the first time his clothes found themselves in odd places, the door to the bathroom opened and out walked Maddie, wearing nothing but his shirt, which left little to the imagination but also covered what it really needed to. This of course, caused him to stare at her, his mouth dropping open in how good she looked in his much bigger shirt.

Maddie blushed at his stare as she looked away. "I wasn't paying attention to what I grabbed and didn't realize I had grabbed your shirt, and little else." She explained as she tugged the front of the shirt down a little, which caused more of her breasts to be shown.

Harry looked away from her and told her, "It's alright, but we should sort out our clothes before we go downstairs." He told her as he tried not to think about how she looked in his shirt, or how it was going to smell like her, and her favorite brand of soap no doubt, for a while. He needed to focus on the things they needed to talk about still before anything else could happen, and an erection wasn't going to help anything.

Maddie smiled awkwardly and motioned for him to turn around, once he had, she took off his shirt and began to change into her own clothes, well, fresh clothes anyway, as her old ones reeked of some scent she couldn't immediately name or place. Once she finished, she let him know and turned around as he got dressed in the rest of his clothes, unfortunately, he didn't have a change of spare clothes on him, or here for that matter, so he just put on his clothes from the day before. And he had been right about his shirt smelling of Maddie and her soap, he sniffed it cautiously, making sure not to be too obvious about it. It strangely smelled of coconut and vanilla.

"So, I finished changing..." he started awkwardly, "So, um...can we talk…about...uh...everything…?" he asked, cutting himself off repeatedly as he tried to think of how to start up a conversation and trying to think of how to introduce her to the fact that Magic is real.

Maddie sighed. "I guess we should talk about this before we say anything to my children." She agreed as she took a seat on the bed. "Firstly, I want you to know that I'm not mad about you hiding who you really are from me. I can't imagine how hard it must be for you in New York to go outside without people coming up to you about things. Though it does hurt to know you didn't trust me with your real identity I do understand your reasoning for keeping silent on it," She told him.

Harry had to hold back his flinch at the thought of how she's going to react once she learns that Jazz and Danny have known the whole time and that he knew they knew.

"Now, I don't expect you to remain married to me. This wasn't intended on either of our parts so we can quietly get it annulled and go back to being just friends if you feel that we can." Maddie told him, not seeing the conflicted look, or his epic flinch, he got from the mentioning of getting the marriage annulled.

Harry felt like a sacrifice standing before his goddess as she sat on her throne as he thought about how to word his next words, before deciding to just be blunt and honest. Sighing heavily and drawing her attention to him, he turned so his back was facing her and tensed his shoulders visibly, like he was expecting to be hit. "About the marriage..." he began awkwardly, "Um, I...don't think it was a muggle priest that married us..." he said, unintentionally using the term 'muggle' in his frustration at being manipulated through magical means like this.

Maddie frowned in confusion at the term. "Muggle?" She asked. "I know I am behind with most current terms, even more so those of other countries, but that is truly one I've never heard before." She said before spotting something sticking out from under her pillow. Pulling it out she noticed it was the marriage licence from their wedding the night before. However it had some odd seals on it, she was also listed as a Lady and Harry a Lord, and there were names she's never heard of on it, including a 'Friar Amandus' as the priest. "Is this a real marriage licence? Cause if it's not, then we aren't really married," She questioned as she passed the licence over to Harry.

Harry, turning slightly to receive the licence, looked it over for only a second before letting out a groan/wail of defeat.

"What? What's wrong Harry?" She asked in slight dread. "If it is a real one we can get it annulled, so there shouldn't be any problem, right?"

Harry sighed in a deeply defeated manner now. "The licence is genuine, it's just, the seals confirmed my fears..." he said sadly, he then turned to look at Maddie, weariness and fear in his eyes, "Maddie, firstly, I want to let you know that, if I had any choice in the matter, I would not have broken this news to you in such a…rude awakening? I guess..." he continued, ending in a lame tone of voice of defeat. He then shook his head, "Anyway what I am about to share with you may make you hate me, and I would understand if you do..." he added, avoiding her gaze as he was sure she would be angry, "Magic exists, its real...and what's more is...apparently, and I don't know how this is possible, well I have some suspicion but that's about it at the moment, but, anyway, our marriage was conducted by a magical priest..." he sighed sadly, he knew this next part could possibly crush her, "As such, for all intents and purposes, our marriage...is quite literally, 'Till death do us part'..." he finished sadly, he then tensed up visibly, expecting to be hit, or an explosion of curse words, yelling, anything, when he didn't feel or hear anything, he peaked open his one eye to see Maddie staring at him, he could see questions in her intelligent eyes, as well as her mind obviously processing what he told her.

Maddie struggled a little to process just what Harry had told her. Magic was real? There were magical priest? It all just seemed so crazy to her, despite the fact that she dedicated her life to ghost hunting, a form of science, so she focused on the very important thing he had told her. "How is our marriage until death? What are the details to this binding marriage? How do you know there's no way out of it?" She asked.

Harry flinched visibly once more, causing her eyebrow to raise in response. He then sighed and admitted, "It's exactly the same, in terms of the vows, as my marriage to my other three wives..." he started nervously, "After my first trip to Vegas, and...my subsequent marriages..." he explained, "I talked to a magical priest in New York at one of the magical churches there, and well, long story short, under the 'details' section of the license, would normally be the vows, stating what could break the marriage or cause it to be nullified, examples being cheating, or criminal activity, that sorta thing..." he then made the mistake of looking into her eyes and saw a wish to understand as well as a bit of anger, so he flinched again and looked down in shame, "Ours, however, is blank, meaning standard wedding vows..." he finished, unable to say the words most marriages vows ended with.

Maddie had noticed the number of times Harry had flinched but didn't comment on them, choosing instead to focus on what he'd just told her. "How can that be legal though?" She questioned.

Harry let out a sigh and simply replied with, "I've come to learn that magical government is always run by some level of idiocy, not to mention that, when Magic is involved, science and logic go out the window..." Which he honestly believed at this point given his interactions with two of the wizarding world's governments, especially about the part Magic making a mockery of science.

Maddie sighed. "So then, what happens now? I mean if we can't end this marriage, what's going to happen to my kids and I? Are we going to have to move? And what do you mean science goes out the window when magic is involved?" Maddie questioned. She didn't like the idea of something that messes with science and no magic user was going to get away with such things if she had anything to say about it.

Harry, once again, flinched, only this time it was as if he had been struck. "Um, about that, it's probably my fault..." he sighed, "As far as I can remember, magic and fate have had it out for me...in fact, there's a saying," he said awkwardly, "'If it can go wrong, it will go wrong...but when a Potter is involved...it goes wrong in spectacular fashion,'" he quoted. He then sighed, "In addition, the priest's name, 'Friar Amandus'," he added, "It's a name I recognise but cannot place right now, so I would have to consult someone else before I can give a definitive answer," he then paused as he rolled his mind back to her questions. "As for your questions, the answers are as follows, we work through this, together, after all, were...married now, even if you don't want me now that you know the truth..." he said, not seeing her turn to look at him at that comment, "Secondly, in regards to the kids and yourself, well, I would look after you, and do everything I could to ensure that your every need is looked after," he said with a blush. "Thirdly, yes, you will most likely have to move...mostly due to the fact that I have to spend most of my time in New York..." he then sighed as he reached her final question, "And as far as I know, no one but me and my company has ever really tried to figure out the 'sciences' of Magic," he explained, "And before you ask, let me just say that Magic, is...well, it's different, it's like a science of its own, with its own rules, laws, and logic..." he finished lamely.

Maddie stared at him for a moment in thought as she chewed over those answers. She then made her choice. "If we are going to be living with you then I need time to inform Jazz and Danny's school of the change as well as see what schools they could go to in New York. They will both need their own rooms and I would like for them to have their own bathrooms as they are nearing adulthood," She began. "I would also like my own lab set up so half is devoted to my ghost research and the other half is dedicated towards unravelling magic. I also expect you to introduce us to your family and for everyone, including yourself, to treat my children as if they were their own, but to respect their wishes to remember their father. I shall be keeping my late husband's last name but will allow my new last name to be added on. I also expect to be given all materials regarding magic that you can give me upon granting me my lab. You will spend time with my children as you do your own and when it comes to things like punishments I expect us to work together or for you to let me handle it myself," Maddie listed. "I also would like it if Danny's friends could be brought out to New York from time to time so that he can stay in touch with them as moving away from them will hurt him," She added.

Harry winced/smiled quite a few times, "Ok, firstly, in regards to the lab and the research on magic, I should be able to manage that, if I make you one of the division heads in the company's R&D section," he smiled, "In regards to your son's friends, I was thinking of asking my magic teacher to interview Sam, and allow me to take her on as my student, and as for Tucker, I am sure I could find some sort of position for him in the company." And then he winced, hard, "As for my family...um, about that, I remember telling you I had some issues with my dad at least during the invasion..." he paused, wondering how to say this gently, "My...dad...isn't exactly human..." he said, looking down, as if he was expecting to be hit.

Maddie almost dreaded the answer to what she was about to ask but knew she had to know now rather than be taken off guard later. "Define not exactly human?"

Harry winced, knowing now that, on top of everything else, she would probably really hate him now, after all, his father didn't exactly have the best reputation, not to mention the recent invasion hadn't 'helped'. "Um, as in...he's the Asgardian god of Mischief and Evil, Loki?" he said weakly.

She knew she shouldn't have asked. "Now there are gods involved?" She asked herself before sighing. "Let's add making sure my children are protected to the list, and move it to the top of the list," She stated before running a hand through her still damp hair. "Anything else I should know before we inform Danny and Jazz?"

"Um..." Harry began 'encouragingly', trying to think about anything that could come up that might seem relevant, "Ok, I have magic, as I am both a sorcerer, and a wizard..." he started, "I have a witch, an assassin, and a super spy as three of my other wives..." he continued, "My witch wife's daughter has 'adopted' multiple aunts and uncles from family friends..." he added as he continued to think, "My super spy wife just had triplets during the Invasion of New York..." He then paused, "And finally, I only recently found out that Jazz and Danny knew who I really am after Jazz figured it out after that first time you three met me...apparently?" he finished awkwardly, and knowing he was most likely forgetting a lot of other details about himself, the family, and other things Maddie should know, but for the life of him, couldn't recall or bring himself to mention to her just yet.

Maddie stared at Harry for a moment before looking him over and wondering how the hell someone as young as Harry could have gotten tangled up in so much. Spies, assassins, sorcery? And just what the hell did he mean her kids had figured him out when they met him? She really wanted to get more answers out of him but then remembered her kids were waiting in the kitchen for answers themselves, and thus she should get them both down there to explain what's going on and what's going to happen in the near future. "While I want to question you further on everything, I fear we have to go downstairs and inform my children that they have a new step-father and that we will be moving to New York. They are owed the full truth after all." Maddie was dreading telling them. Jazz would be happy that she knew already, but given Danny's thoughts on her and Harry dating in the past, she was certain he would be very angry with her over this.

Harry sighed, "Time to face the music," he said with a sigh, "You know, whenever i spent time with Jazz, she would, in her own way, 'subtly' hint that we would end up together," he added with a sardonic smile. Then, getting up, he made sure to check everything that he had on him yesterday was with him once more, before heading for the door to the bedroom, and opening before gesturing for Maddie to go first, "My Lady?" he said, waiting for her to go first like a gentleman.

Maddie smiled and shook her head at the act as she passed him before frowning as she remembered something. "You still have to explain what that licence has us listed as Lord and Lady," She told him as she headed for the stairs, already able to hear Jazz trying to shush Danny, while Danny was clearly upset based on the noises from the kitchen.

Harry smiled nervously, "That, amongst other things, will be explained to you along with your children," he replied, "After all," he said, pausing for effect, "I only want to explain that part once..." he said, trailing off as he walked into the kitchen behind Maddie, only to be met by two very different expressions. Jazz was ecstatic, obviously hoping to have some 'girl talk' with her mother later while having more questions for Harry literally brimming in her eyes. Danny, on the other hand, was clearly angry, or deeply upset, and obviously conflicted too.

So, letting out a sigh for the umpteenth time that day, Harry sat down and stated bluntly, "Ok, first thing you should all know is that, while your mother and I are still unsure of the details of what happened last night, we did, somehow, end up married to one another. This wasn't planned, and for reasons I will get into soon we cannot annul the marriage." Harry began. "Next thing you need to know is that I am actually a member of two different classes of Magic. One being sorcery, which is what you have already seen me use, and the other being wizardry, which I will explain to you both when I get the proper books and such to fully explain it as I also need to tell Maddie more details about it." He stopped to take a breath. "Now due to my wizarding heritage, I am of 'noble birth'," he stated, knowing that, while that part might not be the best place to start at for this bit of information, he found it easier to answer through questions then give a long winded explanation outright. "Or to be more accurate, I am tied to a few old wizarding bloodlines, at least three of which were believed to have died out, one that up until I had my kids ended with me, and the other one seems to have a habit of getting caught up with the wrong sort. I only mention this because these noble lines mean I need to marry and provide a wife for each...yeah I most likely could've worded that better..." Harry trailed off with a heavy nervous sigh,

Jazz blinked at Harry in surprise and slight confusion. "Okay, that was a mega info dump. To sum up what you just said, and correct me if I'm wrong, but according to you, not only are you two kinds of magic, but you're also the lord of a couple old families with a wife for each family line and somehow you married our mom last night but neither of you know the details of how exactly you ended up married?" Jazz summarized.

"Yes, that's pretty much the short form of what I just said," Harry nodded.

Danny slammed his hands against the table as he stood up. "Seriously!? How can you be so chill about this? You married my mom without even a word to anyone else and you expect us to just be okay with that?" Danny shouted. "I knew I didn't like you for a reason!" Danny then stormed out of the room with both Maddie and Jazz trying to get him to come back.

Harry sighed, already thinking up ways of how to cheer up Danny and win brownie points with him as a 'father figure'. Then, turning to Maddie, he flinched as he saw her glaring at him. "Uh, yes?" he asked hoping that she would explain why she was glaring at him now, and what it was for.

"Did you really have to just dump all of that on Danny at once?" Maddie asked as she put her hands on her hips. "He's already had the shock of finding me in bed with you this morning. You could've at least waited until he'd adjusted to the news of our marriage before you threw all that other stuff at him, or at the very least spoken to me about it so we could've come up with a better way to break it all to him." She scolded.

Jazz let out a sigh. "Yeah, Danny's in a very delicate spot after what we walked in on this morning. That kind of information should've been paced, or at least, the very least you should've let mom or myself break everything but your marriage to him." Jazz said before holding her hands up. "Only saying this because we know Danny best and could've avoided some of the hate that's coming your way now."

Harry hung his head in his hands and groaned, loudly, "Ugh, you're right, this could have been handled better," he agreed, "But, the sooner you know, the better too, due to my wizarding heritage, you, as a family, have now been drawn into laws and regulations, along with a whole world you never knew existed," he explained seriously. "The first thing you two, and Danny need to understand is, no one outside the family can know the Wizarding World exists, I wish you didn't have to hide it, but the Wizarding World protects itself and those connected to it with almost extreme prejudice," he sighed, "Worse case scenario if Danny tells the wrong person, me and my whole family could be fined, or even locked up," he sighed, then frowned in thought, "Though the latter option is kinda unlikely as an outcome, given how far the influence of Auror Corp. has spread..." he said, trailing off in thought of the consequences of if Danny tells someone about Wizarding magic.

Jazz, upon hearing this let out a sigh. "I better go make sure Danny isn't about to tell his friends then." She then hurried out of the kitchen and ran up the stairs.

"You couldn't have told us about that part sooner?" Maddie asked in annoyance. "Knowing we have to keep all of this secret is very important Harry when it could mean jail if we don't." She pointed out before she walked over to the table and sat down.

Harry flinched, "Sorry..." he apologised, looking down sadly, "It's just that, well, last time my...uncle...brother in law?" he answered before trailing off in a questioning manner, "Well, anyway, Remus, was here last time to help explain things to my two wives who were forced into the Wizarding World and its laws by my drunken marriage to them," he explained, "I would call him, but he's with my sister, Hela, and their children in Hel," he explained, then face palmed as he realised how that sounded, "Ok, before you start, let me explain!" he said quickly and before Maddie could do more than open her mouth, "My sister, well, half-sister, Hela, is the Asgardian goddess of death," he said, "And apparently when I married my first three wives, she married my father's mortal friend, Remus, who's a werewolf..." he trailed off, "Yeah, um, I think I am just going to go and contact Remus, along with Nat, hopefully they can explain it better..." he sighed in defeat sadly.

"There are werewolves now as well!?" Maddie didn't know how much she could take of these surprises. "You are going to write a full list about what all is in this family I just married myself and my kids into, and you will leave nothing out," She told him as she got up to get paper and a pen. Gods, wizards, werewolves, super spies, assassins. Just what had she gotten her family into?

Harry sighed as he banged his head into the table, resting it there, "Why does my luck like messing with me so much..." he whimpered, wondering how Jazz was handling her brother right now.

~w~

~Danny Room, same time~

Danny was fuming as he stormed into his room and slammed the door behind him. "How can they all be so calm?" he asked himself aloud, "How can mom just forget dad so easily for this...whackjob?" he sighed, "Seriously, magic?" he then sighed, sure, he knew ghosts were real, and that some claimed to have 'magic', but he had just chalked that up to them having their ghostly powers be stronger due to how long they had been ghosts.

Sighing, and wishing he knew where his phone was, he started up his computer, wanting to share with Sam and Tucker exactly what Harry had done to his mom, along with his thoughts of how he thought this...situation...had happened, when his door opened and in walked Jazz.

Having heard Danny's dismissal of magic from the other side of the door, Jazz eyed her brother upon entering the room. "Oh really? You don't believe he has magic? Than what the hell did he use against Skulker, Danny? Cause that wasn't any power like what you have and he did promise to make it so Sam can learn to use it as well." Jazz pointed out as she walked over to him and unplugged his keyboard. When he protested she said, "Before you go telling everyone what you just heard, you might want to hear the warning about jail time, that mom and I just heard from Harry, we just can't go around telling everyone about what he is."

"What do you mean, 'jail time'?" Danny asked in confusion, "How would we be imprisoned for exposing the truth about magic being real?" he asked stubbornly.

Jazz sighed and set his keyboard on Danny's bed. "Seems there's a whole magical world out there we never knew about and they are more anal about keeping themselves hidden then you are about keeping mom from learning you're Phantom. This magical world doesn't take kindly to people trying to expose them and thus if we try to do so not only will we get locked up but so too will Harry and the rest of his family." When she saw Danny about to argue if that was a bad thing she added. "This means that Harry's children, who are one toddler and three newborns would be ripped from their homes and placed who knows where. Do you really want to do that to a bunch of kids?" She asked, playing the guilt card.

Danny frowned now, forced to think seriously as he was by his sister now. Sure, he was angry at Harry, but does his entire family deserve to pay for his mistake? He wondered, then he sighed and shook his head, "Fine, I won't tell Tucker or Sam," he said angrily, "But don't expect me to forgive him for his fuck up!" Danny added angrily.

Jazz sighed, "Think about it from Harry's perspective, Danny, he's just as much a victim here as mom, he clearly didn't intend for this to happen!" she stressed, remembering the lost look in Harry's eyes that he had clearly tried to keep hidden by putting up a brave front for them. "You can be mad all you want but that doesn't change the fact that he's just as stuck as we are. We're all going to have to just deal with this as we go on with our lives." Jazz told him before placing a hand on his shoulder. "And I know mom hasn't forgotten dad, but you know as well as I do that, dad would've liked Harry like a little brother. Dad wouldn't have gotten mad at mom for moving on, and really Danny, hasn't mom suffered being alone long enough?" She asked him gently.

Danny winced now, he did remember all the times since his dad died when he saw his mom look at loving couples on the street and smiling sadly or sighing longingly. He knew she wanted someone to be there for her now, and he couldn't begrudge her the chance she now had. However, he was still going to blame Harry for this mess, regardless of what happened.

Jazz rolled her eyes. "No one is saying you have to love him or call him dad. But think of it this way Danny," she began, "We get to move to New York, start over in a new school were those like Dash can't touch you," She then smiled. "You'll get to meet the heroes who fought the alien invasion. Oh and did I mention that our new step dad is mega loaded?" At his look of interest Jazz chuckled. "I dare say you can get a pretty sweet allowance from Harry to make up for this mess on top of meeting all those heroes you and Tucker spent forever obsessing over."

Danny thought about it, before glaring at Jazz, "Low blow, sis," he said simply before sighing, "Fine, I will…'play nice'," he relented, "But, he has to agree to some...requests..." he stated adamantly.

"Hey I'm just pointing out the perks we are getting out of this. And who knows Danny," Jazz said as she headed for the door. "If you play your cards right you might get a superhero girlfriend..." She told him mysteriously with a grin before going serious. "Just remember you can't tell anyone, not even Sam and Tucker, about Harry being a wizard. If you must tell them anything, then just leave it at the marriage," she reminded him. "And for mom's sake, please, come back down stairs so Harry can finish explaining things to us before the day is out. We need to know what to expect out of this new family after all," She sighed before leaving Danny to his thoughts and whatever else he was going to do.

Danny frowned in thought, wondering if he could meet Black Widow, then shook his head as he sighed, turned off his computer, and left his room, heading towards the kitchen to meet up with his sister and mother.

~w~

~Meanwhile, downstairs in the Kitchen with Harry and Maddie~

Harry sighed as he listened to Nat on the phone. "Yes, I know, I know, I wasn't exactly expecting this Nat," he reminded her for the umpteenth time, then sighing, "Anyway, can you have Loki contact Remus, and tell him to meet up with us as soon as possible, please?" he asked, then as he heard her response, "Yes, I will wait here till you arrive later today..." he sighed in exasperation. Then he flinched as he heard her accusation, "Ok, I'm gonna hang up now and deal with your punishment for me when you get here," he finished flatly before ending the call. He sighed, then, looking up, he blinked as he saw Danny, Maddie, and Jazz all staring at him. "What?" he asked intelligently.

"Um, who was that you were speaking to and why are they going to punish you?" Jazz asked carefully.

Harry sighed, resisting the urge to wince again, "That was Nat, my wife and secretary," he said smiling awkwardly. "As for why she is going to punish me, she wanted to make it clear that, from now on, I am not to go anywhere alone…again," he explained. "She's also coming here to meet you Maddie, she is also bringing the file she titled, 'Welcome to the Wizarding World, and Harry's family'," he added with a sigh of exasperation. He knew letting her name it that was asking for trouble, and when he had told her as much, she responded with, 'In all your life, when have you never gotten in trouble?' with an arched eyebrow that had two effects on him. The first was to make him want to retort it was never his fault, before realising it kinda was, most of the time...The second, was he felt kind of turned on by her imperial attitude and haughty look.

"Just how many family members are coming over?" Maddie questioned as she wondered where they were all going to sit. She really regretted not buying more chairs before now as she hated not being a good host for company.

Harry smiled, "Best guess?" he replied, "Nat, Remus, and Hela," he continued, "Hela will want to welcome you and 'evaluate' you," he explained, seeing the look in Maddie's eye, "Nat is bringing the 'introductory file'," he continued, "As for Remus, well, he IS a wizard and a werewolf, not to mention both my uncle and brother in law..." he sighed, "And an expert on wizarding laws and wizarding history," he finished.

"Well while we wait for them, Danny has decided to try to accept things, but he does have some requests for you Harry." Jazz said before pushing her brother forward. "Go ahead Danny," She encouraged.

Danny glared at his sister before turning to Harry, "Ok, so, firstly, I want you to treat my mother as the queen she is!" he demanded, getting a glare from his sister, and a sigh of exasperation from his mother.

Harry sighed, "I can treat her the best I can, but I can't treat her like a queen, at least, not exactly," Harry said nervously, "After all, the Wizarding World of Great Britain, which I hail from, answers to the Royal family," he explained.

Danny nodded, realising that was the best he could hope for on that front, "Secondly, I want a really big allowance, say, a thousand a week?" he demanded, getting a gasp from his sister, a wide eyed glare from his mother, and an amused chuckle from Harry.

"Oh brother," Jazz sighed. "I know I spoke a bit about allowances, but let's not go crazy Danny."

"Tell you what. How bout five hundred a week, and after a while, we can talk about raising it, provided you keep your grades up, and behave at school?" Harry countered. "I'll even get you a personal driver and a nice car to be driven around in?" He added to sweeten the compromise.

Danny widened his eyes at that, he hadn't honestly expected that one to succeed, so, nodded in acceptance of the compromise, "Third and final request," he spoke, with his sister giggling at the word 'request', "I-I...uh...want to meet Black Widow..." he blushed crimson as he finally finished.

Harry blinked in surprise at that last request before smiling. "Well then, you are in luck. She is already on her way over here to welcome you all into the family." At Danny's confused look Harry explained. "Nat is Black Widow, and technically your new step...sister mom?" Harry shook his head. "I have no idea if that's the term, but she's one of my other wives and thus now family to you," Harry explained. "So you'll get to see a lot of her from now on." He finished with a chuckle.

Danny frowned externally, while inwardly, he was crying tears of depression, after all, he had all those fantasies about...uh, well, doing things with Black Widow, and now, she was going to be his step-mother or something, yeah, he would definitely need to burn his private stash of photos of her, taken from newspapers and magazines, at the earliest chance he got.

Jazz snickered at that before asking Harry. "Isn't it true that your Trickster program has a lot of young heroes our ages, some from across the world? Think you could introduce my brother to some so he could make friends?" Jazz said while internally attaching 'and maybe even get a girlfriend to replace the spot your wife had in his fantasties'. She wasn't going to out her brother as having the hots for their new stepmom, she'd let him stumble into that one on his own.

Harry smiled, "Yes, there are actually quite a few," he said with a knowing look to Jazz and then to Danny, "Perhaps he would make a great friend out of Jubilee..." he added aloud, more to himself, but also to peak Danny's interest.

Maddie, decided they had sidetracked enough, smiled at Harry playing nice with her son, even if she did disapprove of the inappropriate amount of allowance he had been given. "Anyway, about those things I should know Harry..." she reminded him.

Harry sighed and said, "Well, there's quite a few..." he said as he took the paper she was holding, then her pen, and began writing.

~w~

~Meanwhile deep within the Vlad Master Mansion~

Vlad was angry, he had just been given some very distressing news by one of the ghosts he had forced into being a subordinate of his.

"So let me get this straight, you were following Maddie, when suddenly another ghost happened by and caused her and some man to go to a church, where they had a hasty marriage, and all you can tell me is that her new husband is named 'Harry'," he stressed.

The ghost nodded in a frightened manner, "That's all I could get before some guy came into the records room, and almost took me by surprise," the ghost replied.

Vlad sighed and ran a hand down his face in exasperation, "Can you at least tell me what her new husband looks like?" he stressed out. Only to sigh as he saw the ghost shrink in on itself further.

"Uh...it was dark..." the Ghost replied 'un-helpfully'.

Vlad was seeing red at the incompetence of the ghost before him. "I should throw you head first into the worst section of the Ghost Zone! You pathetic, useless, waste of a ghost!" He roared in anger before blasting the ghost through the wall. "Should've known better to leave this to a little worm like that." He grumbled to himself. "No matter. Maddie's new husband has to reveal himself sooner or later and when he does it shouldn't be too hard to get him out of the picture." He then smirked. "Wouldn't be the first husband I've bumped off..." He chuckled as he recalled how Jack met his end. "Just a shame that Maddie didn't come to me after that. Oh well, this time I won't fail."

~w~

~Fenton Works, just as Harry finishes writing what Maddie needs to know~

Harry sighed in relief as he finally finished writing what Maddie would need to know, only to blush as it, while it had started as point form notes to look up later or get help understanding from one of the other members of the family, it had devolved into detailed, and lengthy, explanations of some of the things that she would have to adjust to. In the end, what started as a single page, had quickly become no less than fourteen pages long.

Maddie looked at the 'essay like novel' before turning to Harry with a raised brow. How could one person have so much that new family members need to know when joining the family? A couple pages she could understand, five pages was still within reason. But fourteen pages? Just how many family members did he have? Adopted by his daughter or not. "I-I um… am not sure where to start," Maddie admitted as she took the finished pages and began to flip through them. "There is no way all this information can be real. You have to be joking with me." Maddie just couldn't believe that someone like Harry would have this mini novel to just to introduce someone to his family. He had to be pulling her leg.

Harry grimaced, "I might have missed a few to be honest..." he began, only to be cut off as a portal of darkness suddenly opened in the kitchen and out stepped a redhead, a very tall ravenette who was smirking like she had won something, and a man who looked like he had been roughed up but was also sporting some lipstick on the side of his mouth.

"Sorry we're late, Lady Slytherin, her family, Harry dear, we were held up by a pointless argument..." Nat greeted before trailing off as she looked pointedly at Hela, who just smiled before looking pointedly at Remus, who sighed, and walked over to Harry.

Reaching out as if to place a hand on Harry's shoulder, he suddenly slugged Harry in the gut. "Sorry Harry, wife's orders..." he apologised as he stepped back looking like he really didn't want to be present right now while Hela nodded in approval.

Harry groaned a little and sighed. "Guess I kind of deserve that. But I swear this wasn't planned or intended! I had just wanted a little break from life, not to end up married to another woman I became friends with by some Friar Amandus." Seeing a look of recognition immediately appear on Remus and Hela's faces, Hela almost having an annoyed yet slightly amused tone to it, Harry raised a brow. "You know about this Friar?" He asked, glad someone knew who his 'newest target' was. Maybe Harry would even ask Danny to join him if Danny really is Phantom.

Helasmiled, but it was a bit forced, "I guess you say more that I am...familiar with him..." Hela sighed with a smile, "He's a powerful wizarding ghost," she began, getting wide eyes from Harry, Jazz, Maddie, and Dany. "In life, Friar Amandus was notorious for using his powers to marry people who came to his church seeing permission to be wed," she then grimaced, "Outwardly, he was a christian friar," she began, "In private, he was a powerful priest of Aphrodite..." she shivered in disgust, remembering all the times she had met that vile goddess and had to run in horror because she would try to match Hela with someone. "Needless to say, because of his patron goddess, he was exceptionally gifted with magics involving love, and would frequently use it to marry couples that came to his church," she then sighed, "Needless to say, he eventually met a...painful end...when one of the couples he married came back and demanded he annul the marriage, only to be told it was permanent!" She then visibly shivered, "As much of an amusement as he was in life for causing chaos, in death, he has been a right terror..." she sighed. "He usually hangs around Vegas, for obvious reasons..." she drawled disgustedly, "Unless, of course, he gets bored and decides to wander the Earth," she finished. She then turned to Maddie and Harry, "Also, Harry, and sister Madeline," she added, looking confused now, "Why do I smell a bit of the stench of death in this room?" she asked, scanning her eyes over each of the occupants before locking onto Danny and looking surprised.

Danny mentally panicked at that. "Oh uh, that must be the ghost portal in the basement." He told her. "After all, there are no ghosts around here, mom makes sure of that," he nervously chuckled.

Harry gave Hela a look asking her to drop it for now but that he hoped she and him could speak to Danny about this later. Maybe Hela could even provide Danny with some information about ghosts that Danny hadn't known before. "In any case," Harry spoke up before Maddie could say anything on the matter. "Everyone, this is my new wife Maddie Slytherin-Fenton, and her two children, Jazz, who's the oldest, and Danny, the youngest." Harry then glared at Nat, Hela, and Remus. "I don't want to hear one word on their ages or mine from any of you!" He said after spotting the look in Nat and Hela's eyes that promised teasing.

Hela, seeing her brother's look, decided to bring up the question of why Danny smelled of someone who had been 'touched by death' while still, clearly, being alive and not some escaped soul, hiding amongst the living. She then turned to Harry and said, "While you have asked me not to tease you, and that is your right as my baby brother," she said, smirking as she saw his eye twitch at being called 'baby', "I still reserve the right, as your big sister, to evaluate her fitness to be family!" she finished with a tone of voice that made it clear that she would not be refused.

"My fitness to be family?" Maddie asked in outrage. "Now see here, I don't know you and you certainly don't know a single thing about me! I have worked hard to raise my children since their father died and I will not stand here and let some giant of a woman speak down to me like that!" She snapped. "You might be his sister, but that does not give you the right to dictate who Harry can or can't have in his life and if you think otherwise then you can go crawl back under whatever rock you came from because I do not want you anywhere near my children nor any children I might have with Harry, are we clear?"

"Such...fire!" Hela smirked, "You will do fine," she said casually, "My assessment just needed a reaction like that one," she said, as she saw everyone's confused looks except for Nat's. "After all, I...may have spoken with your former husband's spirit after trading one of the souls in my kingdom for his..." she said, sounding like she regretted admitting to that. Seeing the curious look on Harry's face, she explained with a sigh, "He has a habit of attacking the other denizens of my realm and thinking he can send them to the christian faiths's 'Ghost Zone'..." she grumbled out, "Eventually I had to restrain him and make it clear his soul belonged to me now, and that I would not tolerate him attacking his fellow citizens," she finished grumpily.

"He's still hunting ghosts even in death?" Maddie asked in shock before a fond smile broke out over her face. "Some things never change, I guess," She mused.

"So you only spoke down to mom to test her resolve towards family. Not a bad move I guess and I'm sure it beats any other means you might've come up with for testing that," Jazz nodded to Hela.

"So wait, is our new aunt like, the...queen of ghosts, or something?" Danny asked in confusion.

Hela smirked at Danny, "Yes, I am a queen, 'Halfling'," she said, smiling as she said 'Halfling', making it clear to Danny to think before he spoke of her, "But, I am not a 'queen of ghosts', I am a goddess of death, ghosts are but one aspect of that," she replied.

Harry gave Hela a disapproving look for the 'Halfling' comment but thankfully Maddie didn't seem to question it. "Alright, let's get onto why you three are here as we've a lot of ground to cover," Harry said to get things back on track. "Oh, and Nat, could you make a note to have rooms ready for Jazz and Danny, and that they get their own private bathrooms? We can go over the other stuff later." Harry wanted to be sure to get things going in the rooms he'd need for the new family members, though he realized he should've asked Maddie if she wanted her own room or was okay with sharing with him and the other wives.

Maddie decided to speak up about her own rooming situation, "I hope it wouldn't be too much trouble to get my own room to, you know, while I get used to the idea of having a new husband and eventually meeting the rest of our...ahem, extended family..." she said awkwardly.

Harry sighed a little. "Yeah, though don't expect everyone to give you much time to settle in before you get swarmed by your new family members. Little Lily is going to want to meet you right away as will her mother, Nym. Laura might give you some space though. As for the rest, well, most of the family works for the company, so you'll see them all over the place," Harry warned.

Nat meanwhile, said, "Don't worry, each of us wives of Harry have our own room, our own...private sanctuary, if you will, where we can be alone with our thoughts, anyone who is not invited into said sanctuaries, but are caught within them, are punished severely..." she said, remembering the time she had to punish Tony after she caught him going through her underwear drawer once. Needless to say, when she had tortu-er, 'interrogated' him about it, he had eventually let slip that it had been part of a bet. One where if he could steal her most prized panties, Thor would grant him a piece of tech from Asgard. For Tony, the temptation had been too much, not to mention he was secretly curious about what she wore under her form fitting Shield Catsuit. Tony's punishment had been legendary and Tony refused to say what he had been subjected to, however he always blushed and refused to meet Pepper or Nat's gaze when the subject came up.

Harry, remembering said incident as well, grinned, "Yes, I still remember when you had me apply that charm that lets you know exactly who has entered your roo-" he was cut off as Nat glared at him now.

"Oh no, you have no room to argue about Tony Stark being a pervert!" she said loudly, causing him to flinch, and getting wide eyed looks from everyone else in the room, minus Hela, who was grinning. "Not when you tried to 'surprise' me that one time by attempting to sneak into my room to 'makeout' with my body..."

Harry stammered, "That was...um, not entirely my f-fault!" Harry stammered.

Nat pinched the bridge of her nose, "My husband you may be, but even you have to respect the 'Rule of Sanctuary' in our house, husband," Nat siad, "And yes, I know it was also Nym's fault for teasing you and giving you a case of blue balls," she said, forgetting that their were children present.

"Uh..." Maddie began awkwardly, not knowing where to begin.

Hela, meanwhile, was close to bursting into laughter, she had not heard this story before, "Natasha, while I can't speak for Harry's...less then appropriate intentions with his wives..." she said, giving Harry a smirk who glared at her for what she was inferring, "I can say that all members of Loki's family, have...ahem, 'Moments of Heat'," she finished with a blush at what she admitted to.

"Okay this is sooo not something I want to hear anymore about, least of all regarding my new step-dad!" Danny protested loudly.

Jazz was blushing but agreed with Danny. "This really isn't something either of us should be hearing. Can we please get back to the subject of family and the rules we need to learn?" Jazz asked, trying not to imagine just what Harry had been doing with Nat. Sure he was her step-dad now, but that didn't mean her crush had just completely vanished just yet.

Nat blushed as she realised what she had revealed to not just Maddie, but also to Harry's newest step-children. "Ahem, I apologize for that...digression...of topic," she began, "Anyway, here Maddie," she said as she reached into a briefcase she had brought with her and pulled out a thick, manilla envelope. Which she then handed to Maddie, "That covers every current member of the family, Harry can go over it with you, which is probably a good idea," she said with a smile. She then turned to Harry, "Don't forget, you're now going to have to get House Slytherin's affairs in order at Gringotts at some point soon too," she reminded him, causing him to groan.

"Go on vacation to relax, only to wind up with more work for when I get off vacation," Harry huffed in annoyance. "Should've just locked myself in my bedroom for a month." He grumbled.

Nat patted the side of Harry's face lovingly, "Now, now dear," she began, "You know that the vacation was for more than just relaxation," she reminded him, getting him to stiffen as he remembered that Laura had been getting...anxious… with her advances of late.

He groaned, "She's going to be insufferable when I get back...isn't she?" he asked in a frightened manner.

"I do believe she has plans to chain you to the bed until she gets her way. Nym is jealous by the way," Nat chuckled as Harry crumbled into a seat. "Not to worry though. Andromeda has promised to keep a set stream of potions to ensure you survive the experience and to hopefully speed things along," She assured him, seeing Harry perk up a little at that before adding. "Though I think Nym might want a few turns herself before she let's any of us set you free," Nat laughed.

Harry shivered, and looked at Nat pleadingly, "But...uh...y-you'll protect me, though, right Nat?" he asked hopefully, almost beseechingly.

Nat appeared thoughtful for a moment before telling him, "I'll think about it," Truth was she had a list of things that needed to get done after he got back and if she could rope him into doing them without complaint by using Nym as a threat then she was willing to do so.

Before anymore could be said, everyone stopped as the sound of the door opening and then closing loudly was heard before a female voice called out. "Yo Danny, your favorite cuzz is here!" the voice of the girl then continued, "Come on Danny, you promised to take me to see Sam and Tuk Tuk when I got back!" the voice then revealed its owner as they entered the kitchen only to stop. "Uh…Hellooo..." the girl said awkwardly, taking in everyone in the room and then looking for Danny hoping that he would help explain her presence.

Harry frowned as his eyes darted from Danny, to the new girl, and then back again, noticing how alike the two looked. The only differences between the two were that the girl had longer hair, was dressed differently, and, of course, the fact she was a girl. "Um...Maddie? Why does that girl look like Danny's twin sister?" Harry asked in confusion.

Danny couldn't believe that Dani hadn't called ahead. He'd asked her so many times to give him a heads up when she's dropping by so that he at least could make sure that Sam and Tucker were free to hang out. Now, here she was, walking in during what was clearly going to be one of the most confusing times of his life. Danny really wondered if perhaps the universe hated him sometimes.

Jazz sighed and tried to think how to explain Dani to Harry. After all, she couldn't really tell him that Dani is a female clone of Danny...could she? Mentally shaking her head of the idea she waited to see what her mother would say.

Maddie frowned, "Well, she's Dani Fenton, a cousin on my husband's side of the family, well, former husband I mean, honey," Maddie replied, unintentionally calling Harry honey.

Danny's head snapped to his mother, and he wanted to protest the nickname she'd just called Harry, when Dani spoke up again.

"Um hello? What is going on here? Who are these people, and why did Auntie Maddie call him honey?" Dani asked as she pointed to Harry.

"Well, Dani, we now have a step-dad, and that's him. I'm sure you've heard of Harry Potter." Jazz answered since no one else seemed to be about to.

Dani's eyes turned from Harry, to Maddie, to Danny, to Jazz, and back again before she walked over to Danny, grabbed his arm and pulled him towards the door. "Borrowing this!" She called out before dragging Danny out the door.

"Hey, Dani, get off, I'm not an object you can just borrow!" he said adamantly, only for the smaller and younger girl to tug him out the door.

Harry just stared at the door for a moment before looking to Nat and Hela, then to Maddie and Jazz. "Ok, so...that just happened..." he said while Jazz was palming her face in humiliation.

~w~

~Meanwhile, outside the door~

Dani turned to Danny after letting go of him. "I'm gone only like, three weeks and you've got a step-dad who looks old enough to be your older brother? What the hell Danny? Explain what's been going on while I've been away. How did this happen? Does he know about you? What about those other people? What's the story behind that giant woman in there, and why the hell was she staring at me like some kind of curiosity?" Dani asked as she listed all her main questions.

Danny gulped nervously, "Uh, well, you see, um..." he started nervously before sighing and began to explain about the arrival of Harry Potter in Amity Park, under his alias he had used of course, followed by meeting him, Jazz figuring who he really was, and then all the time he had spent with their family, and, culminating in what he walked in on to this morning. "As for the giant woman, apparently she is Hela, goddess of death," he added nervously.

Dani stared at him for a moment before looking at the door they just walked out of and then looking back at him. "Goddess of death? As in she could know what we are, or at least have a freaking clue what we are?" She asked in a small amount of concern.

Danny nodded nervously, not trusting his voice, "She called me 'Halfling'," he said, "And when she arrived, she asked why she could smell the 'stench of death' in the room, before turning her eyes on me and just staring..." he explained.

Dani ran a hand through her hair in an agitated manner. "Well, what's her connection to your new step-dad? What is she doing here?" That was the one question Danny had yet to answer.

Danny sighed, "She's my new step-dad's," he paused to shiver at how…'wrong' it felt to call Harry 'dad', before continuing, "Anyway, she's Harry's sister, well, half-sister to be precise," he sighed and rubbed the back of his head awkwardly, "And she is here to help explain what we need to know about Harry's family, along with, um, something else...," he finished seriously.

"Something else?" Danny normally doesn't hide important family stuff from Dani, so the fact that he's doing so now has her on alert. "So let me get this straight, your new step-dad's half sister is the goddess of death?" At Danny's nod she moved on. "What about those other two people. The beautiful redhead and the worn out looking guy? Who are they?" She asked him.

Danny sighed, grabbed Dani's right arm, opened the door and dragged her back to the kitchen, with her kicking and protesting at him the whole way. Once he was standing before Harry again, he pointed to Dani and explained, "You can fill her in on magic, or sorcery, or whatever, as I have no idea what I can and cannot tell her..." he finished with an angry grumble while Dani shot him a betrayed look.

Hela gave a chuckle at the pair before placing a hand on the shoulders of both Danny and Dani. "Why don't I take these two and explain things to the new relative while you get started with Maddie and Jazz?" She offered Harry. "I promise I shall behave myself," She smiled, making sure her grip wouldn't let the two go unless they phased through her.

Harry looked between Danny, Dani, and Hela, his instincts were screaming this was a bad idea, but he knew that if he refused, Hela would just beat him with some kind of logical argument. So, giving a sigh, Harry nodded. "Give them the talk, but, remember, no inflicting pain!" he ordered.

Hela laughed at that. "I'm not a monster Harry." She then pulled the two kids out of the room and up to where she knew Danny's room was. The smell of death helped her to find it. She gave the two a push into the room before shutting the door so they wouldn't be over heard from downstairs.

Danny gulped fearfully, while Dani glareed at Hela defiantly. "Do your worst, ye she-devil!" Dani said defiantly, feeling that Hela was to confront them about what they really are.

Hela rolled her eyes. "You should meet my grandfather, pretty sure you'd get along with him if that's for your first response to being alone with me," Hela commented as she walked past the pair and took a seat on Danny's bed, looking completely unbothered by Dani's words. "I promised Harry I would wait for him to say anything about...that," She said with a dismissive hand wave. "And I will be the 'good older sister' by keeping my word. Now then, do you want to know what's going on, or would you rather just stand there doing an excellent impression of the Allfather the last time I saw him?" She asked Dani in a bored tone.

Both Danny and Dani looked at one another, silently communicating like twins for a moment before Dani looked at Hela defiantly, "Why should we trust what a 'goddess of death' says?" she asked, "Don't you go around killing people or something?" This, of course, caused Danny to place his head in his hands, and let a long, suffering, groan.

Hela let out a laugh at Dani's accusation. "Go around killing people? Oh my dear girl just what does Midgard teach it's children about death?" She asked with a shake of her head. "No, I don't go around killing people. Well, not unless they are trying to defy death by cheating it. I have had to personally come claim those bastards who think they are so clever by finding ways to stay alive beyond their time," she explained. "But for the most part, I am more or less, the ruler of the realm of the dead. In fact, unless I am mistaken, that place most ghosts you might encounter here call the 'Ghost Zone', does have a passage to my realm." She said thoughtfully, "With the exception of those who try to cheat death, all who end up in my realm have died as fate decreed they should and when they would. I have no reason to go around killing without reason," Hela said before taking out a photo. "And even less so since the births of my darling little ones. I simply have my hands full ruling over the dead and raising these two with my husband, whom you saw downstairs," Hela told Dani while showing her a family photo.

Danny and Dani both looked at the photo and saw the photo show Hela, sitting on a massive throne of black stone, while holding two babies and the rough and world weary man who had been downstairs, standing beside Hela with a massive and happy smile on his face. They handed the photo back to Hela, before Danny spoke. "Sorry about my cousin, she sometimes speaks befor-" he was cut off as Hela spoke up.

"You mean your homunculus?" she asked, cutting off Danny, and causing both teens to look at her in confusion. Seeing the confused looks on their face, she frowned, "Hmm, not the right word, or, rather, it has fallen out of use at least..." she mumbled, "Hmm, let's see, what is the modern vernacular..." she said questioningly, "Hmm, maybe you understand this term then, act-alike?" getting more confused looks, she tried again, "Um, your reproduction?" that just seemed to confuse the two teens even more. She sighed, growing frustrated, then she remembered that one alchemist, or whatever he had called himself that had ended up in her realm after dying in an explosion in his laboratory, "Um, 'clo-ne?" she tried, using the unfamiliar word that sounded foriegn coming from her mouth.

Both Danny and Dani tensed at that before Danny spoke up. "What the? Why would you think Dani's a clone?" He asked in confusion and shock. He could understand her knowing that he and Dani were halflings, or at least half dead, but there was no way she should know how Dani came to be. Yet here was Hela sitting on his bed, having just stated she knows that Dani is a clone. Just how much did Harry and his family know about Danny's family?

Hela smirked, smirked, "To everyone who listens, you convince them you are cousins," she stated, "But, remember, I am a goddess of death, I govern over a realm of the afterlife and as such, I have powers that help me identify souls," she stated seriously, "Now, when I laid eyes on Danny, I knew, someone, had been messing with souls, and in a way no Mortal should be," she stated seriously, "Now, imagine my surprise when I see 'Dani' here come before me, and her soul is identical to yours, not just in the sense that your both Halflings, but also in the same way that one makes a Homunculus," she said, seeing their confused looks again, she sighed, "Clo-ne, doppelganger, duplicate, take your pick of terms," she said in a frustrated manner, really, what were Mortals being taught these days in their 'scien-cy' classes.

Danny blinked in surprise confusion at that. "We have the same soul? How the hell did Vlad pull that off?" He asked.

"I don't know. This is the first time I've ever heard of this." Dani shrugged, just as confused as Danny.

Hela sighed and pinched the bridge of her nose, mumbling about idiocy and wondering what Midgardians were learning in their sciency classes that they apparently took in school these days. "I said you souls were identical!" she stressed out, "Not the same, at least, not in the sense of having the same soul, just identical," she said with a sigh, she sighed, realising they were not understanding her words properly, "Ok, so, Dani is a clo-ne of Danny, some of his soul would have had to be used along with some genetic material to create Dani, otherwise, you would not have so many similarities," she explained, "Furthermore, while your souls are identical, they are also slightly different," she continued, "But only just, the difference is so small that only a death god or a death goddess, like myself, would be able to notice," she finished.

Danny dropped into his desk chair with a sigh. "I give up trying to understand. All of this is just giving me a headache..." Sure Danny did some science with his mom, and even his dad, before the accident, but this was way beyond him.

Dani dropped into the beanbag Danny had in the corner. "Same here, Danny." She agreed on the whole getting a headache part. "Let's drop this conversation and move on to you explaining just whatever you and those other guys are supposed to be explaining."

Hela nodded, "Very well," she began, "First off, as Harry is of noble birth, even royalty, though the latter is due to his father being the second in line for the throne of Asgard," Hela explained, not caring one iota as Danny and Dani's eyes widened comically huge, "You will be expected to behave in a certain fashion," she said, before turning a sharp glare to them both, causing them both to gulp. "Second, as my niece and nephew," she added, "I expect to see you dressed better the next time I decide to stop by, and not see you dressed as…'paupers'?" she finished, ending with a questioning tone clearly trying to think of the right modern term again.

Danny glared at her for the pauper's comments. "Hey not everyone is super rich like Harry is!" He protested. "And there's nothing wrong with our clothes. We like them and we're not going to dress all fancy just because you show up!"

Dani nodded her head. "That's right! You might be our new aunt but you don't get to rule over what we do or don't wear. If we want to continue dressing like this then that's our choice and you can't do a damn thing about it!" Dani then added, "You aren't our mother after all!"

Hela was not amused, however, she grinned devilishly now, causing both teens to shrink a bit, "First off," Hela began slowly and deliberately, "You may not have been rich before, but your family is now, and as such, you will have to maintain a certain standard, I am sure Nat downstairs is telling the exact same thing to your sister, Jazz. So, my recommendation would be to ask Harry, or Nat, or both, take you two, Maddie, and Jazz, to one of those...massive market places...so you can pick and choose what you want from one of those high society tailors," she continued, "Secondly, do not mistake me for some run of the mill Aunty," she said, as she used her powers to make the shadows of the room creep up the walls, and begin to exude the sense of dread that lurked within her realms hall of punishments. "I am a goddess, and a ruler of the dead, if you are rude, I might force my brother to bring the family for a visit to meet my children, who have yet to fully meet him properly," she then relaxed and the sense of dread disappeared as the shadows returned to normal. "Now, am I understood, niece, nephew?" she asked, looking at them both with an amused but expectant look. She would refuse to deal with unruly children, it was one reason she made sure to teach her children that if they were naughty, they would lose certain things for a while. It had had the undesired side effect of Remus becoming the so called 'fun parent', no matter how hard she tried to take the title from him.

Danny was silent for a moment before grumbling out, "Some ruler of the dead when ghosts run rampant and hurt people here in Amity all the time."

Hela heard his every word, and frowned, and frowned, then after a moment, she smiled evilly, "Ah, I see your confusion now," she said with amusement clear in her voice, "You assume there is only one realm of the dead," she finished, she then smirked. "You should know, I am actually one of the nicest rulers of the dead," she began, "There is also Lord Hades, he's a grumpy one usually, mostly because his youngest brother stole what was rightfully his and has punished Hades for 'losing' ever since," she continued, "There is also, of course, the minor Chirstian god, and his pet son, the Devil, he who punishes those who die in sin. However, while Hell is for those who sinned, Heaven is for those who died heroes and saints. For everyone else, there is your so called 'Ghost Zone'," she explained with obvious disgust, "And those are but two of the realms of the dead, mine is a third, and far older than Christianaity's Hell, which, ironically, stole its name from my realm, Hel," she finished, before conjuring a glass of wine and taking a sip. "Now, if you're both ready to behave, I will continue explaining what you both need to know as members of Harry's extended family, or, we can continue to talk about Death, and the various realms, their rulers, and the differences between them, your choice honestly..." she concluded in a bored tone.

Dani groaned, "Please no more lessons! Let's just get this over with so that I can lay down!" She begged.

Danny wasn't even going to try to remember what Hela had just told them. There was just no way any of that was going to stick and thus he'd just let it go and move on so he could get her out of his room already.

Hela, seeing them both eager to move, nodded, "Very well, I trust that you will take to heart that, while I, personally, only expect you to wear 'fancy clothes', as you put it," she began, "Nat is much more of a 'hardass' then I could ever be, and trust me, you do not want her attentions to linger on you," she continued. "Now then, the second thing, in the Wizarding World, and especially in Great Britain, progress is very slow, as such, many of the 'pureblood' wizards and witches are, in two words, chronically stupid," she said with a smirk, "As such, trying to 'educate' them on modern society is, and will be, a long, and hard road," she took another sip of her wine, "More importantly, both of you have been made part of the Slytherin line due to your mothers marriage to my baby brother," she said with a smirk, "As such, you will be...ahem, expected, to rub shoulders with the high and mighty of the Wizarding World, insult the wrong person, or say the wrong word to the wrong people and, you may either cause a duel to be issued, or worse, the next Wizarding Civil War, so," here, she twitched her eye seeing Dani zoning out, and so, she summoned a book from Dani's bookcase and then droped it, harshly, on the table, "Pay attention!" she shouted, "You need to know this stuff or you will incur some idiot possibly declaring a blood feud against your family!" she said seriously.

Dani jumped at the book being slammed. "Okay, okay! I'm trying to pay attention. But why do we have to deal with this stuff? We're just two halfas and not wizards or whatever. Also I'm just the cousin, so really only Danny has to deal with it." She commented.

"Wow, thanks for throwing me under the bus Dani." Danny grumbled before turning to Hela. "But she has a point. Why do either of us have to get involved with that stuff? At most I would think mom would be the only one as she's married to him. Jazz and I are just the step-kids."

Hela palmed her face, after dismissing her conjured glass of wine, and grumbled to herself, "Why do I have to deal with the dumb ones..." she sighed heavily, she then mumbled a bit more incoherently until she sighed once more and sat up, glaring at both Danny and Dani, "Ok, let me explain slowly so your mortal brains can understand," she began, before pointing at Danny, "You, are the only son of Maddie, as House Slytherin is a masculine house, that means, regardless of whether you are actually related to Harry or not, you are the Heir Presumptive, do you understand?" she explained, glaring at Danny till he nodded, "Good, now, unless Maddie has another son," she continued, "You will remain Heir to the House of Slytherin," then she pointed at Dani, "You are a homunculus of Danny, as such, magic recognises you as both the same, and separate people," she continued to explain, "As such, you should both know this next point, what you do, regardless of what it is, will reflect on the entire family, not just House Slytherin, but Harry's other wives and children too!" she finished with a sigh. "Let's say, by chance, you accidentally insult the American President of the Magical Congress of the United States of America," she began saying as an example, "You would force Harry to respond to the accusation, and any punishments that he ends up incurring could, potentially, affect every member of the family," continued, "Do you want the entire family to suffer, because you didn't know something that could, potentially have consequences?" she asked seriously.

Both halfas shook their heads at that as they processed just what all had been dumped on them. They were both going to have to actually care about this stuff and make sure to work hard to not mess up just to protect the family.

Hela smiled, glad they were now understanding, "I am sorry to have to inform you of all this, but you have to understand, your nobles now, you can't fight in the streets or school yards as you once did," she said sadly, "As such, you have to understand, your actions have consequences, some of which you don't always know about," she added, "Alright, lastly, and this is the most important," she stressed, "Because you are now my baby brothers step-children," she said, "You will be required to meet with Odin, king of Asgard and his wife, Frigga, eventually," now her tone turned cold, "Odin doesn't like Loki, he doesn't like Harry because he is a child of Loki, and as such, he won't like you or any of his other great grandchildren that Harry has sired, so, if he comes to visit you will be...what will you be?" she asked/demanded of them both.

"On our best behavior." Both answered.

Danny then frowned. "Wait, if we can't fight anymore then who's going to stop the ghosts that are attacking people? Who's going to stop Vlad?" He asked in concern, knowing that no good could come from leaving any of the violent ghosts or even Vlad free to do whatever they wanted.

Hela smiled, "I know not of this 'Vlad'...unless you mean the king of the Vampires..." she began to reply, "Also, the sooner you revealed your true selves to both your mother, and the rest of the family, the better," she continued, "What's more, if any ghost does attack the family, directly, or indirectly, as they are dead, I should be notified immediately, as I am a goddess of death, and if they have attacked the family, that makes them my enemy too, and I do not suffer threats against the family lightly..." she then sighed, "Finally, I am not saying you can't do your 'ghost hero' thing or whatever you call it, merely that you will be expected not to fight as mortals do while in your mortal forms," she finished.

Dani leaned into Danny and began to whisper to him and he whispered back to her for a moment before the pair pulled away with a nod to each other.

"The Vlad I'm speaking about is Vlad Masters. He's my mom's ex boyfriend from years ago and he used to work with my parents while they were in college on ghost tech," Danny began. "He's a halfa like we are and he's been after my mom to try to get her to be with him for years. He even made Dani, trying to make her a perfect clone of me so that he could switch me out with the clone that would push mom to be with him, but you can see how that went," Danny explained with a roll of his eyes. "Anyway, once Vlad hears about mom's marriage to Harry I just know he's going to be a thorn in everyone's side and he will try to send ghosts after the family, if not take action himself. Thankfully Harry can use that magic of his to fight ghosts, but Vlad's tricky and knows a lot of things about being a halfa that I don't," He explained.

Hela narrowed her eyes dangerously, her nostrils flaring as a bit of underworld smoke came from them, "So he's a threat to Harry and by extension the family..." she said in understanding, then she smiled, "I shall have one of my servants watch over the family once everyone is in New York," she said seriously, "Till then," she added, before raising a hand and a portal appeared above it before dropping a small, spherical black stone into her waiting hand. "This can be used to summon me," she said, handing it out for Danny to take, "Don't abuse it!" she added seriously as she drew her hand back a bit before relinquishing the orb to Danny. "Now then, fill me in on all the ghosts that serve this 'Vlad Masters', and what you know about them," she demanded.

Both halfas smiled at hearing Vlad was going to be dealt with. That was a huge weight off of both of their minds.

Danny, upon hearing the request for information on ghosts smiled and turned on his computer. "I've actually been building a ghost database to help when fighting ghosts," He told Hela as he brought up the secret file and showed it to her. Each ghost being displayed with a picture of the ghost, details he'd been able to learn, all known powers to date the ghost had, and of course a list of all people/ghost that the one being viewed had worked for or with in the past. "It's kind of a pet project of mine." Danny blushed as he realized just how this might look to an outsider.

Hela arched an eyebrow, "How am I to work this device, I am unfamiliar with its design," she said, "Maybe my dear Remus will understand its function?" she questioned herself.

Danny bit back a laugh at that. "I'll just print the information off for you then." He told her and did a quick check of his printer before hitting the print button. "Might take a while as it's a lot to print but at least you'll have paper copies of the information." He told her.

Hela nodded, "I can work with that," she nodded, then she turned a sly grin to Danny and Dani, "Now, you two have something to share with my baby brother, as well as your Mother and sister, I believe," she said with a smirk that promised this would not be fun for them.

Danny paled at that. "You can't want us to reveal what we are now!" He protested.

Dani, while having less to lose than Danny tried to reason with Hela. "Maddie is still trying to adjust to everything Harry's sharing with her right now. Learning her son is half ghost as well that I'm a clone of Danny could kill her." She argued.

Hela pinched the bridge of her nose, "Short sighted Mortals..." she grumbled, "Let me ask you, which would have the better outcome, an enemy holding the upper hand by revealing your ghostly powers to hurt you by sharing with your loved ones a secret you couldn't trust them with, or, you deciding to put your faith and trust in family and prove that you trust them by sharing something that you believe would potentially make them hate you?" she asked with an arched eyebrow.

Danny could see her point but she clearly wasn't seeing the one Dani tried to make. "We aren't saying mom and them shouldn't know about us. What we're arguing is the timing. Mom is only just learning about magic, this wizarding stuff, and anything else Harry's got to tell her. So while we understand we have to reveal what we are, we just don't want to add to the already huge stress mom has from having to learn all that magical, wizarding, noble crap." He sighed, "We just want to give her time to get through some of that before we tell her."

"Jazz already knows about us. Given that she's known about Danny for a while and he told her all about me." Dani jumped in. "Harry and his side of the family might not have any problems understanding and accepting us and what we are, but Maddie has a whole lot more to learn about and accept than they do. We just don't want to overload her right now." Dani explained.

Hela sighed, pinching her nose again, "Why me..." she mumbled, "Look," she sighed, "I know Harry already knows what you are, both of you, I had a silent communication with him earlier when I called you what you are Danny, a Halfling," Hela said seriously, "All you're doing by not telling Maddie, is hurting her when she eventually finds out from a third party instead of from you," she continued, "Now, there is one more option for her finding to find out, from you, that your a Halfling," she said, "I am loathed to do it though..." she said disdainfully.

Both Danny and Dani leaned in at that, eyes wide at what this other way could be and a little worried given that Hela said she was 'loathered to do it'.

Hela glared at the two of them, but sighed, "Very well, final option it is..." she said before standing up and then pinching both Danny and Dani's ears as she teleported all three of them to the kitchen, getting everyone's attention, and Harry, looking at them, had a frown on his face. She then glared at the two she was holding the ears of, and said loudly, "These two have something to share with you, Maddie," she said seriously.

"Hela," Harry said in warning.

"Let go!" Danny protested. "You can't force us to tell her now!"

"Yeah that's right. We need to give her time to get over everything else!" Dani argued as she tried to pry Hela's fingers off her ear since she shouldn't use her powers.

Hela sighed, "I am sorry baby brother, but this must be done, for the sake and safety of the family!" she said, looking at them before turning to Maddie and saying, "These two have a secret they need to tell you," she began seriously, "They think it's too much for you, on top of the 'info dump' on the Wizarding World, your new noble status, and everything else," she then glared at the two, before raising her arms just high enough so that Danny and Dani were forced to stand on their toes while giving whimpers of pain. "I, on the other hand, believe you are strong enough to learn what they really are," she said adamantly, "Now then, Danny, Dani, you have one last chance before you force my hands," she said seriously.

Maddie looked to the two with a frown. "What is she talking about?"

"Please, be reasonable!" Danny begged.

"This is our secret to share, so you should just butt out!" Dani shouted.

"Hela, there are better ways to do this!" Harry protested, feeling almost like he was scolding Lily for chewing off a lock again rather than speaking to his sister.

Hela looked at Harry sadly, "I will not have my family torn apart by secrets being kept!" She said defiantly to Harry, "Besides, you will forgive me, eventually..." she said sadly, clearly showing how she hadn't wanted it to come to this. Then, looking at Danny and Dani, she said, "I warned you, there was another option, one that I was loath to use, but your stubborn pride has forced my hand!" she said, as she began to channel her power, shadows swirling around her before suddenly, Danny and Dani transformed before her.

Hela sighed, looking sad, "These two are Halflings," she said, looking at Maddie now.

Maddie stared in shock at Danny and Dani, unable to believe what she was seeing and a part of her wanting to deny what she was seeing. "Danny? Y-your Ph-Phantom?" She forced out.

Danny couldn't bring himself to look at him mom and he sagged in Hela's hold. "I'm sorry mom. I swear, I was going to tell you one day." He was trying to hold back tears but it was hard to keep the pained and vulnerable tone out of his voice. He was scared after all about what was going to happen.

Dani, also couldn't look at Maddie as she feared her place in the family was going to be lost over this.

Harry sighed and turned to Maddie, trying to give her some comfort as well as point out all the good Danny had done as Phantom, to help keep Maddie from reacting the wrong way to this. Harry even thought about telling Maddie how he had worked with Danny to fight off a ghost just a few weeks ago but decided that would be too much right now.

Jazz was glaring at Hela. "I don't care if you are our new aunt, what you did is completely unacceptable, not to mention do you not realize how emotionally and mentally damaging forcing this secret out is for them and mom? I cannot believe you would do something as childish as this!" She shouted.

Remus glared at Hela. "That was a low move, dear, and we will be having a long talk about how you handled this when we get home." He told her in a tone full of disapprovement.

Nat said nothing on the subject. While she did agree that there should be no secrets, that still didn't excuse forcing two teens to reveal themselves like this. This was also more a matter that Danny, Dani, Harry, and Maddie should've gotten to sit down and go over before the rest of the family got involved. But as Hela was a grown adult and only a sister in law it wasn't Nat's place to comment, also everyone else was giving the same comments she would so there was no need for her to say anything.

Hela flinched only when Remus looked at her with disappointment and when he said they would be having a 'talk' later, and when Harry gave her a look of disappointment. While Hela was the 'man of the house' in regards to her portion of the family, with Remus being the 'stay at home mom', he could also be frightening when mad. As for her brother, she knew she was going to have to use her kids to get him to forgive her, she just wondered how long it would take. "I apologize for using my powers to force these two to transform," she said, "But they were being stubborn, and I still remember when I was a child and tried to hide my magic from father," she winced, "It wasn't until an enemy of our family attacked, forcing my hand, and I accidentally burned my brother Fenrir in the defence of our home, that father said he was deeply disappointed in me for not telling him I had been learning magic on my own," she said sadly, her eyes brimming with tears at the memory.

Harry sighed. "The big difference between what happened between you, father, and my one brother is that you were all already living with stuff like magic your whole lives. You were used to stuff like that being normal while Maddie and her family aren't. Also, that was your secret to keep or share. Danny and Dani's secret wasn't yours to reveal even though they are now family. It was theirs to share and only theirs." Harry let out another sigh. "I shall be informing father about this and let him know all of the details." Harry had little right to punish Hela for this, but both Loki and Remus did, so he would just make sure Loki knew what she had done and leave it in their hands.

Hela nodded sadly to her brother, looking defeated for once, instead of her usual, confident, self. "I just wanted Maddie to know, so that, maybe, she could help her son with his ghost fighting..." she said, "And so that she couldn't be used as a hostage against him in the future," she finished lamely.

Harry sighed. If ghosts were going to be a problem like what Hela seemed to be implying then he could understand a little of why she had forced this. He'd have to look into ghost wards when the family moves in.

"How long?" Maddie asked. "How long have you been hiding this?" She asked Danny as her voice shook with conflicting emotions.

Danny winced, wishing he didn't have to answer this question, "Um...four years..." he answered, looking utterly defeated and at anywhere but his mother. He felt like he had betrayed her somehow.

Maddie had to try to remember how to breathe as she realized what this meant. Four years ago was when the accident that killed Jack happened, it was also around the time Phantom first started appearing. A part of her back then had partly believed that Phantom was at fault for the accident, but now that she knew that Phantom was her son, it brought a terrifying possibility to her mind. "D-Danny, did this happen because of the accident?" She forced herself to ask, not truly wanting to know but needing to.

Danny reluctantly nodded, "It's my fault that dad died," he said, blaming himself, "If I hadn't been in the lab, dad wouldn't have asked for my help, and the machine wouldn't have malfunctioned as it did," he said sadly.

Maddie knew this wasn't true. She had gone over the data that had survived. "No! That's not true at all Danny. I saw the data from the accident. Neither you nor your father did anything wrong during the test. You did everything right, just as Jack did." She assured him. "I looked over everything and while I don't know what caused it to malfunction as it did, I know the both of you are blameless for this." She told him. She had known that Jack's death had affected him greatly when it happened but she had believed that was because he had been eleven years old when it happened. She had no idea her son had convinced himself it was his fault. Maddie cursed herself for not speaking to him about this before now.

"So...I...didn't kill dad?" he asked cautiously, "I'm...not a monster?" he asked, shocking his sister and mother with how he clearly viewed himself.

"Danny how could you ever think that?" Jazz asked in shock. "You and I spoke about this so much after the accident, you could never have hurt dad. He was practically your idol as a child."

"I can't believe I didn't see how you thought such horrible things about yourself for all these years. My baby actually saw himself a monster and I just stood by and did nothing about it." Maddie was ashamed of herself of having been so clueless about what her son had been going through.

Harry, seeing how this was going, decided to try to help. "Danny, your mother said she looked over everything after the accident and found no fault in anything you or your father did. That proves you didn't kill him and from everything I've seen of you, even the little I've seen of you as Phantom, I can assure you that you are the farthest thing from a monster." Harry assured him before turning to Maddie. "Maddie, you've had so much happen to you in a short time. The loss of your husband, the appearance of ghosts, you've struggled to protect your family and to provide for them by yourself. No mother could've done better than what you have done these last four years," He assured her with a hug.

Jazz took a breath to steady herself. "Harry's right about everything." She agreed as she looked to her brother. "You could never hurt anyone except to stop them from hurting others, that's been proven, time and again, since you became Phantom," She told him before turning to her mom. "And while I do feel that there are points in the past that could've been improved upon, I know you did everything in your power to look after and care for us as a single mother, and we couldn't have asked for a better mom for us," Jazz gave her mom a small smile to try to reassure her.

Danny looked down and then reached over and gave his mom a hug, "Thanks for being my mom, mom," he said, "Also, um, there's something you should know...about Vlad..." he said, unsure of how to phrase the next part exactly.

Maddie raised a brow at that. "Vlad? What does Vlad have to do with anything?" She asked in confusion.

"Oh, only a ton of everything as he really should rename himself to 'Evil shithead of an asshole'," Dani sighed.

Danny winced, "Not exactly how I would have worded it Dani..." he replied dryly, "You see, mom, remember how you told me that Vlad got that bad 'hygiene problem', back when you were both in college with dad?" he asked carefully.

Maddie frowned, she was certain she never told him about that, and as far as she knew the entire time they had been around Vlad when he visited her that wasn't brought up at all. "Did Vlad tell you about that?" She wondered.

Danny winced, "Only in the sense of 'evil villain backstory'..." he began, "Apparently, he was changed into what...um…'Aunt' Hela, calls a 'Halfling'," he said.

Maddie processed what her son had just said as she thought back to Vlad, and suddenly an image of one of the ghosts she had seen Phantom fight against popped into her head. A ghost she had always thought looked somewhat familiar to her, but had never been able to figure out why. Her eyes widened for a moment before a look of anger took over. "He's been attacking my son!" She shouted in rage as it finally clicked that Vlad was that ghost. "I can not believe I didn't see it before now!" She then looked at Danny. "Oh Danny, I'm so sorry, I didn't realize he was such a bad man. I swear, I am never letting him near this family ever again!" She promised her son as she held him tight.

Danny smiled sadly, "I know he was your friend, Mom," he said, "But almost every time I have fought against him, he spouts how he will, eventually, win your heart," he said disgustedly, "Not to mention he created Dani and uses ghosts as servants and underlin..." he trailed off as he realised what he had just revealed in the heat of the moment, as he had been so happy to finally be able to share with his mother about his 'adventures'.

Maddie turned her eyes to Dani in shock. "What? Vlad created you?"

Dani sighed, a little annoyed at Danny for having exposed her like that. "Soo paying you back for that later," She told him before looking at Maddie. "Vlad originally intended for me to be a perfect clone of Danny, one who would be loyal to him and replace the real Danny. He expected me to convince you to marry him. However when I turned out the way I did, he was naturally upset before deciding to just use me against Danny," She explained. "Long story short, after meeting Danny, I realized the kind of person Vlad is and decided to ditch him. Danny offered to help me set up a life, and since then I've helped Danny when I can to fight against Vlad," she summed up. "I've no more ties to Vlad other than how I came to exist and have no wish to ever go back to him."

Maddie studied Dani for a moment before giving her a small smile. "So Vlad's hurt you too then," she stated. "While I am upset that Vlad tried something like that, I won't hold it against you since you turned your back on him when you found out what kind of person he is," Maddie's smile then widened. "And you are family after all, regardless of how you came to be."

Danny suddenly smiled, glad his mother had accepted Dani, "So, you don't mind she's a clone then?" he blurted out in his happiness and excitement. This, of course, caused multiple facepalms.

Maddie chuckled at her son. "Well, I wish you had told me sooner, as she's more a twin sister to you than she is a cousin. I just hope we can have the changes made to her file to correct her place in this family," She told him.

Harry held up his hand slightly. "Um, is this a good time to mention my one wife, Laura, is a clone?" He said before smiling at Dani. "You won't have any problems fitting in with my side of the family over that detail," He assured her.

Hela, throughout all of this, smiled softly, "So..." she began, "My plan worked out in the end?" she said hopefully but with a questioning tone at the end.

Harry, Remus, Danny, Dani, Jazz, Nat, and even Maddie, all of them turned to Hela with looks of disappointment and annoyce before Danny sighed, "And there goes the wonderful family moment," he said dryly.

Hela glared at Danny, but it lacked any real heat, "Anyway, I gotta go check on my children the...um…'nanny'...that me and Remus chose isn't exactly the best..." she tried to say without actually saying anything.

Danny opened his mouth before shutting it with a pained look. "Tempting, so very, very tempting..." He ground out as he struggled to hold his jab back.

Dani snickered at Danny. "Too easy Danny. Way too easy." She joked.

Hela sighed, "Anyway, Remus, dear," she began sweetly, causing him to frown, "Be a dear, tell your nephew to stop picking on your poor defenceless wife," she said fluttering her eyes at him.

Remus stared at her for a moment before an amused smile took over his face. "Defenceless?" He asked before holding up his hands, "Able to summon an army of skeleton warriors, summon swords, natural superhuman strength, magic, highly trained combat skills in both unarmed and armed combat," He counted on his fingers before cheekily grinning at her. "Who's defenceless again?" He asked, getting a few chuckles from the group.

Hela glared and huffed as she crossed her arms looking away while blushing embarrassedly.

Nat, meanwhile, decided now would be a good time to remind everyone that Harry's secretary/first wife was present. "Now that Danny and Dani's secret is out in the open amongst the family, I must remind Harry that it is crucial that I get back to the office!" she said, looking at him expectantly.

Harry coughed, realising that they had all got caught up in the Fenton drama, for a while. "Ahem right, ah, see you when I get back with Maddie, Jazz, Danny, and Dani?" he said, only to stop and facepalm, hard. "I just remembered, about two and a half weeks ago, I told Axion Labs that I would talk to you about purchasing it from Vladco!" he said, and now that he knew more about Vlad Master, he decided to sweeten the deal. "I also want to see about opening a smaller facility, maybe a production plant here in Amity," he added, "Of course, we would have to make sure that it's protected against ghosts, so that Vlad can't break in," he added.

Danny turned to Harry with a raised brow. "You're going to open up shop here, but stay in New York while also buying one of Vlad's contracts? Why? What reason could you have for that?" He wondered out loud.

Harry grinned at Danny, "I want to get as many of Vladco's employees out from under the control of Vlad Masters as I can, if I have to pay top dollar to do so, it will be worth it," he said, "Also, I was tinkering with the idea of expanding my business's facilities, and what better place to start, then in a small town like Amity that already has an R&D lab?"Harry explained. Just then a certain blond guy he met at Casper High popped into Harry's mind, one that he had learned from Jazz, Sam, and Tucker always picked on Danny without any punishment, even when caught red handed. Harry turned to Jazz, "Daughter," he asked, purposely using the term for dramatic effect, "In the time since we met, you have told me a lot about this 'Dash' fellow," he said with a hint of an aristocratic air, "How intelligent, would you say that this Dash fellow is?" he finished with an expectant look on his face.

Jazz rolled her eyes. "Let's just say the dirt on the bottom of his shoes has a better chance of being proven intelligent than Dash does. How he's managed to not get kicked out of school for failing every class, I have no idea, though I'm pretty sure it has to do with the school's over focus on sports as Dash never gets punished for anything he does," Jazz answered in an annoyed way.

Harry now wore a shit eating grin, "So, needless to say, beyond being a Highschool jock and bully, outside of school his career options are not great, correct?" he said, still grinning.

Jazz shrugged. "Pretty much." She answered before frowning. "Why do you suddenly want to talk about Dash?" She asked him.

Harry smiled innocently, "Just an idea I had and am tinkering with..." he said innocently, though he was sure no one was buying it.

Nat rolled her eyes, knowing he was up to something. "Just phone me later about what you need done, and I will take care of the arrangements. Though Axion will need you at the office back home before that can be made official. The other things you've set yourself on I can handle that completely on my own, once you tell me all the details," She smirked. "Now then, unless there's anything else, I really think I should be getting home to handle the paperwork, and most of all get back to being a mom," She told Harry pointedly.

Harry cringed, "Ah, right, the triplets are still hungry little buggers aren't they?" he asked, trying not to look at Nat's chest, which had grown considerably during her pregnancy.

"Not nearly as hungry as that uncle of your's. How the people of Asgard eat that much I will never understand, even with all the training and work they do it just shouldn't be possible to hold that much food and keep shape." Nat said with a shake of her head.

Harry grinned, "I still remember that time you had left your breast milk in that bottle in the main fridge, Nat my dear," he said pointedly, referring to the incident where Thor had mistakenly thought it was just ordinary milk, resulting in a lot of teasing later when he realised his mistake after consuming it with cereal.

Maddie reached over and smacked the back of Harry's head. "Not in front of the children dear!" She scolded Harry.

Nat gave a laugh at that. "Oh, I think you'll fit right in with the rest of us girls, Maddie," She smiled.

Harry grumbled about the unfairness of it all before smiling now, "Well, I think that this Friday has been wasted enough," he said pointedly to everyone, making everyone realise how much time had passed.

Jazz smiled, "No need to worry about us missing school," she said happily, "The school called while you and Mom wee...um...doing whatever up there...and said something about a ghost attack that damaged the building," she finished.

Dani smiled. "That is why I didn't get here until recently. Had to chase that one half way across town after spotting it," she told them.

Harry just sighed as he picked Maddie up bridal style and simply said, "Well, I have husbandly duties to attend too," he said, earning himself another smack and a blush from Maddie, "So, Danny, go inform your friends that Sam will be getting that Internship and to expect a call from Nat, and that Tucker should stop by sometime late tomorrow," he then turned to Jazz, "As for you Jazz, um..." he trailed off trying to remember the names of her friends.

Jazz rolled her eyes. "My friends are already in college as I'm too mature for the kids in town." She told him. "I'll text them later to let them know I'm moving." She then smiled. "If you wanted to get me out of the house just say so. I'm sure I can find something to do until dinner."

Harry grinned, "Talk to Nat before you leave about negotiating an allowance then for being so smart," he said, as he left the room, carrying a protesting Maddie. An awkward silence left in his wake.

Danny stared after his mother and Harry before shuttering as he realized that he didn't need to know what was going on up there. Turning to Nat, he gave a smile and said. "So um…Harry agreed to give me a five hundred dollar allowance with a nice car and driver to start with," He told her, wondering if she'd be as nice about it as Harry had been.

~w~

~Two Days later~

Danny gulped as he found himself in a familiar position, with Sam and Tucker looking on in concern, and wondering where the hell the teachers were.

At that moment Ms. Avery walked up, causing Tucker to flinch, and Sam to smile, "Ahem," said her cultured, refined, and haughty voice, "Mr. Baxter!" she said sharply, "I trust that you weren't going to do anything to land you in even more hot mud then you already are, right?" she said, arching an eyebrow imperiously.

Dash frowned at the unfamiliar woman with long red hair, sharp and icy looking blue eyes, and refined features. "Who are you lady and what do you mean?" he asked arrogantly.

Ms. Avery frowned, "I am Ms. Avery, your new homeroom teacher," she replied sharply, "I am guessing you weren't paying attention during the Assembly earlier, that will earn you further detention Mr. Baxter," she said before pinching Dash's ear, and pulling him backwards off of Danny. "Mr. Baxter, I made sure to do my reading when it comes to you. Classic bullying, self centered nature, lack of empathy for others. Given how biased that idiot Mr. Lancer was it's a wonder you haven't done something to land yourself in jail before now!" She commented. "I promise you though Mr. Baxter, those days of a 'Free Pass' for your rule breaking are long gone now that I'm here. Get ready for pain," She whispered the last bit to him.

At that moment Harry walked in, and spotted what was going on. "Ah, Ms. Avery," Harry grinned seeing her, "Glad to see you dealing with the 'trash'," he chuckled.

"Good morning Mr. Potter. Just a case of Mr. Baxter here still believing Mr. Lancer is here to cover and protect his sorry backside." Ms. Avery greeted Harry, making Dash sputter at the name she'd called Harry. He might not be the brightest person but everyone knows the name Potter these days.

Harry then turned to Danny, "How you doing son?" he asked, purposely being extra loud to draw the attention of the other students to him specifically, rather than Ms. Avery.

Dash, finally getting his mouth to work looked between Danny and Harry in shock. "W-what?! Son? Potter?" He asked, unable to do more than push out one word questions.

Paulina looked over Harry, who had dressed in a business suit that morning, before her eyes widened in shock. "You're Harry Potter!" She then looked to Danny and then back to Harry. "He's your son?" She was starting to regret not treating Danny better now.

All around the hall whispers broke out as word of Harry Potter calling Danny son spread. This was huge news and completely shocked everyone that hadn't known beforehand.

Sam smirked at the pale look on Dash's face and the horror on Paulina's. "Guess this will teach you to be nicer to people, cause you never know when they might turn out to have a dad as cool as Harry or something just as awesome," She commented.

Tucker so wanted to high five Harry in the moment for how sweet that reveal was. Today was, according to Danny, the last day Danny would be at Casper High, and this was so going to make the rest of the day like a dream come true for Danny. Leaning in Tucker whispered, "Don't suppose Harry's looking to adopt?" To which he just got an amused look from Danny.

Ms. Avery suddenly let out a horrified gasp, "MR. BAXTER, HOW DARE YOU!" she shouted before switching from pinching his ear, to holding his arm behind his back, with his face smashed into a new dent in the Locker in front of him, "We're going to head to the principal's office, right now mister!" she ordered before twisting his arm a little to get him to wince, "Be sure that I will be calling your parents and asking for a severe punishment for you, maybe some 'cleaning duties', and will make sure to make it clear that your parents need to teach you how to respect women in authority!" she said adamantly.

Sam gasped, she had been paying attention to Dash and so had seen what happened, as such, she leaned over to Danny and whispered, "He grabbed her boob!" she hissed, what she had actually seen was Dash trying to push Ms. Avery off him only for his hand to misjudge its aim and grab Ms. Avery's chest, worst still, others in the hallway had seen it too, and as such, caused the whispers to spread and grow as the uproar of what he did spread, not to mention become distorted the further back it traveled making the rumor more inaccurate, but more outlandish.

With that, Ms. Avery made sure to forcefully drag Dash to the principal's office, proving she was both stronger then she appeared, and then Dash himself was by how easily he was dragged away.

Danny grinned as he watched Dash get taken away for punishment as Harry told him, loud enough for the hall to hear about how Harry had bought the school, and had replaced all the bias teachers with new staff that would not turn a blind eye on any bad behavior or rule breaking, no matter the achievements of the student in question, and how everyone who's rule breaking, bullying, etc. that had not been punished by the school was finally going to get their overdue punishments, starting today. Danny almost laughed as he realized what this all meant for him. Not only did everyone now know he was the step-son of Harry Potter, but that his new dad owned the school. No one was going to dare bully Danny anymore, he was going to be super popular, and he could even get some small petty revenge on people for what they did to him all because he wasn't going to see them again after that day. Today might be his last day at Casper High, but it was also going to be the best day too. "Alright, I'll give you points for this one, Harry." Danny told his smiling step-father.

~w~

~Omake: Discoveries and Headaches~

~Song Start: FFXIII-2 OST Gilgamesh Theme ( Clash on the Big Bridge )~

Gilgamesh laughed madly as he cut down another of these pitiful mortals, wielding their strange booming metal sticks. "Come mortals, face your deaths with honor!" he cackled as he launched himself forward through the underground passage till he came across another group of people in strange black combat clothing and wielding more of those boomsticks that had failed to harm him in any way, "Quake mortals, for you have the pleasure of dying at the hands of the Mighty Gilgamesh!" he screamed in glee as he sliced them apart while others in white coats were running for cover and screaming their heads off.

Enkidu meanwhile was having the time of his life, tearing through men in lab coats and men in uniforms, getting the occasional snack as he took off limbs before gulping down said limbs.

Meanwhile, on the other side of this 'battle', Hydra agents were running in fear, deeply regretting their decision to try and get this man, no, this monster, to share his abilities and weapons. He had already torn through half of this base, and caused multiple explosions that had had little effect on him. Needless to say, it was only a matter of time till Shield took notice of the explosions no doubt breaking through the surface and causing the earth to cave in.

"Someone get the Asset here now!" a Hydra commander shouted angrily.

"We can't sir," One the privates called. "We're cut off from all but two of the passages to the Asset and the only two that remain have that monster and it's pet in them!" While Hydra men and women might be willing to die against normal foes, or even enhanced foes, not a single one of them wanted to face those two monsters, no matter the punishment for them. Death at the hands of a fellow Hydra member would be so much better than death by those monsters.

"Shield crafts are beginning to appear on the long range radar. We don't have time to wake the Asset even if we could reach it!" A woman shouted in panic.

Both the Hydra commander and Baron Wolfgang von Strucker cursed, "This was supposed to be an easy fucking job for Hydra!" The Hydra commander cursed.

"What about the Scepter?" Strucker demanded.

"Sorry Baron, but were cut off from that too!" the underling replied defeatedly.

Baron Strucker growled, "What of the twins?" he demanded.

One Hydra agent checked before quickly paling. "The jet transporting the twins has been shot down after attempting to engage in combat with Shield. We've lost contact with them. Status of the twins is currently unknown," The agent answered.

Baron Stucker cursed again, "This operation was well until that idiot, List, decided to capture that monster and his 'pet'..." he growled. If he survived and managed to escape he would track down List and make him pay for costing Hydra so many important operations!

At that moment Striker suddenly heard the monster's voice laugh, "You must be the commander here!" the voice said with a tone of triumph.

Baron Strucker turned around and tried to draw his sword, a family heirloom rumored to be made of Meteorite metals, to stab the monster, only for Gilgamesh to grab his arm and rip it off viciously.

"Hmm, interesting weapon..." he said picking it up and testing its weight, "Mine now mortal!" he said before tossing Strucker aside and making his way to the rest of the agents.

Baron Strucker cursed as he rapidly lost blood from the hole of where his arm was. As he watched the Monster run off, he quickly saw Shield Agents running towards him as his vision faded.

~Song End Here~

~w~

~Above the Hydra Base where Fury, twenty minutes after Gilgamesh's attack~

Fury scowled as he arrived at the base that had been discovered in the outskirts of

Sokovia. "Report!" he demanded as Phil Coulson walked up to Fury.

"We have discovered a secret base full of what looked like a paramilitary members armed with gear as good as or better than SHIELD's," he began, "It would seem they got their hands on the two targets known as 'Gilgamesh' and 'Enkidu'," he continued, "From what we can tell, they turned on their would be captors and tore the base apart from the inside out, resulting in some of the base's generators exploding causing severe internal damage to the base's structure," Coulson then sighed, "Shield Agents have been storming the building and so far all we know is that if anyone is alive, their missing limbs," he finished.

Fury sighed, pinching his nose. "Those two are impossible to track..." he sighed, "Have our agents secure everything they can get their hands on, and stabilise anyone still alive," he ordered, "And someone find out where those two monsters got to!" he said before entering the base.

~w~

~Meanwhile, near a downed Hydra craft~

Wanda was leaning against her brother as he carefully led them away from the wreck and away from the aircraft still in the air. They did not fully understand what had happened but they were getting away from the clear danger they were in.

Pietro wanted to just pick his sister up and run as fast as he could away from the wreck but his right arm was injured and thus he couldn't carry her. All he could do was support her as they walked towards a road several feet away from the crash where a van had pulled to a stop.

As the van pulled to a stop, a young redhead teen stepped out, with a worried look on her face.

"Hey, are you ok, you look hurt, was there a battle somewhere nearby, and do you need assistance?" the redhead fired off the questions rapidly.

Wanda and Pietro looked at each other and silently agreed that they needed to get the hell away from here and wherever that van was going had to be better than going back to Hydra.

"My brother and I just escaped from our captors and need to get away from here," Wanda told them. "We don't care where we end up so long as it's away from those people."

Pietro moved them closer to the van so the redhead and anyone with her could see their injuries. "Please help us," He begged, as much as he hated doing it.

"Pepper, you know better than to pepper people with questions like that!" a charismatic voice chided the redhead.

"But Tony, they need help!" the redhead, Pepper, replied in a reprimanding tone.

"Pepper, we're in a stolen van!" a black teenager pointed out angrily, "We need to move, if it helps, I will help you get them in here, then we can talk!" he said seriously.

Then, suddenly, the third teenager stuck his head out the window, "Just hurry up, that thing connecting to my suit says that a boat will be waiting for us if we can hurry things along!" the third teen said. Not seeing Wanda and Pietro staring at him in shock.

"Is that?" Pietro asked as he stared at the one hanging out the window of the van.

"Impossible. He's far too young!" Wanda said before her eyes widened. "Could he be a son?" She asked before pushing the thought aside. "We can deal with this later, right now we have to go before they find us," She reminded herself and her brother.

The black teenager got out of the van and rushed to help the brother and sister duo into the van. Pepper quickly joining him,

Once they were all inside, Tony, the driver apparently, said, "Hold on to something!" he said as he started the van up again and began driving west again.

"So," the redhead started awkwardly, "My name is Pepper Potts, Rhodey is the guy who was nice enough to help me get you into the van," she said in rapid fashion, "And the one driving is Tony Stark!" she said excitedly

Wanda and Pietro shared a look, both wondering just what the hell was going on before Wanda gave a small smile at the group. "I am Wanda and this is my brother, Pietro."

"Nice to meet you," Tony said distractedly as he focused on driving as fast as he could as safely as he could.

~w~

~Meanwhile, back at the Hydra base a few minutes later~

Fury knew this was going to be a headache when he got reports of explosions and cave-ins from underground in Sokovia's outskirts. As he entered the massive chamber that his agents had secured, he saw Coulson scanning the screen of a computer monitor with his eyes.

"Report agent Coulson," Fury said wearlily.

Coulson, hearing Fury's voice tore his eyes away from the screen. "It would seem we found one of our most wanted targets Sir," Coulson said wearily.

Fury arched an eyebrow, wondering who they had found, "The mercenary known as the Winter Soldier," Coulson said, Fury's eyes widening at that.

Fury turned his gaze to the cryo chamber in the room, and stared at it, wondering what this boded for the future.

~w~

AN: Oracle: Thank you all so much for being so kind and understanding about the long wait. We really hope this chapter makes up for it and that you still enjoy what we have created. Be sure to let us know what you think of everything that's happened in this chapter and we'll do our best to bring you more real soon.

Ogremen: Holy shit, talk about the ups and downs and full of humor, eh? Lol, anyway, we REALLY hope you enjoyed this chapter and see how we're diverging from the canon of the MCU! Lol Anyway, we REALLY hope you liked the reappearance of Gilgamesh and Enkidu! We also hope you leave a review with your thoughts, hopes, and dreams for future chapters, after all, we got a few ideas from some of the reviews of the last chapter! ;P Anyway, till next time! ^w^ Also, sorry for the long wait, we really did have to wait for Oracle's pc to get fixed, but, also we had to wait till our creative juices allowed us to finish the latest chapter of LFR (Loki's Family Rewrite) XP