Author's Note: I do not own Danny Phantom.
Chapter 1: Accidents Happen
Jack stumbled back in shock as the little house exploded in a furious burst of flames. It wasn't supposed to be this way... They had come there to save those people from the ectoplasmic scum that had kept them hostage there. Gold and crimson burned into his eyes, and a numbing sense of dread crept up into him... How could this have happened?
He looked at his two partners standing to his left; both had indifferent looks drawn across their faces, not affected in the slightest by what they saw...what they had done. He had tried to tell them to stop shooting, that the people in that home obiously had been brainwashed into thinking the ghost was one of them, that a more direct diplomatic approach was needed for the situation. Of course, the idiots blundered on, stubbornly assuring themselves that they were right.
While he couldn't say he'd never done something along the same lines before, blindly rushing after a ghost, it had never resulted in such...disasterous consequences. The metal bazooka in his hands felt cold and heavy as he looked back towards the flames, smoke wafting from the darkening wood of the home... No one could have survived that. Even if he ran in there right now, there would be nothing left to save... His only consolation was in the hope that the ghost wouldn't be able to bother anyone again. The energized ectoplasm from their blasts reacting with, what he assumed to be, the heating system or the oven running would have disintegrated the ecto-manifestation... right?
He looked back towards the other agents in white and holstered the bazooka onto his back. He could hear Agent O, or as he was known more personally, Oswald Farthing, already calling in a brief report to the Director as he tiredly approached them.
"...code orange-theta-double-zero. Request media restriction... affirmative, mission successful... O out." The pale-skinned man ended the transmission and nodded to his partners, Jack nodded back a solem look on his face, and followed the other two to the jet.
Slumping into a seat, he watched as the ground receeded below them. Oswald and their partner, Kennith Arlington (Agent K), a man who looked nearly identical to Oswald but for his dark complection, remained silent and it was hard for him to tell what they thought of the mission today at the small, old home in the middle of the Wisconsin woods... They didn't even know the people's names and they'd let them die. He- he couldn't do this anymore. He needed to go home and be with his family... his wife and daughter... He could protect them, at least, and he would always protect them.
So... That's Chapter 1. Short, I know, but I'm just seeing if I can actually complete a story.
If you didn't already notice. This is an AU. It will diverge from the original T.V. show (actually, it already has), but I'm not going into the details about that. You'll just have to find out yourself. :) This is all I will give you: There is no PP, TUE happened (like in the T.V. series), and there is NO Danielle (I really just don't know how I'd make that kid fit with the story).