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Summary: This takes place between 'The Files' and 'Camping'. After Maddie finds out about Danny's secret double life, Tucker, Sam, and Jazz finds out that she knows
The New Addition to Team Phantom
Chapter 1
Maddie Fenton was working on some calculations trying to understand her son's power. From Danny's ghost files, it was sounding as if Danny was getting more powerful by the day. Especially that file about Vlad.
Vlad…
How had she missed it? The Wisconsin ghost had the same voice and body build as Vlad.
Maddie sighed as she determined that the answer to THAT question was the same answer to how she had missed Danny's little secret:
She just didn't want to believe it so she told herself it was impossible though the number one rule of science is to never rule anything out…especially when dealing with the supernatural.
"Mom?"
Maddie looked up and smiled at her eldest child, Jazz.
"Hi Honey" Maddie greeted her daughter as she motioned the teen to have a seat. "How are those college applications coming?"
"Smoothly. They're about ready to be sent off" Jazz said as she sat down and glimpsed at the calculations "What are you working on?"
"Trying to see why Vlad seems to be at a constant power level and your brother's level shoots up with each fight" Maddie said.
"So you know" Jazz said remembering how Danny had managed to perfect his duplication after a few hours with their mother. It wasn't a question
"I'm not blind Jazz. I knew something was up with your brother and I wasn't going to rest until I knew what it was. Though I will admit, this was the LAST thing I suspected"
"How'd you find out?" Jazz asked
"Went through his ghost files. You?"
"I followed him into and alley and saw him transform into Phantom during that Spirit Week" Jazz said remembering how concerned she had been for his sanity before she discovered his secret. Of course, the concern was coming back, but now that Maddie knew, Danny would be just fine. "Though, I didn't tell him until a few months later. After the C.A.T. incident to be exact"
"It's a good thing you told him you knew after that incident" Maddie told her daughter. "Even though Danny won't admit it, he needs someone to talk to. I read the file about Dark Dan"
"Did Danny tell you I actually SAW Dark Dan?" Jazz asked
"No" Maddie said interested
"Well…let's just say Danny's not the only one who still has nightmares" Jazz said. "It was like looking into the face of pure evil. When he transformed to reveal that it was just a disguise, I KNEW that was NOT my baby brother. Luckily, I don't know what it is yet, but something about villains entices them to spout out their plans. He told me that he had trapped our Danny into the future, Vlad's portal was still operational, and his past and that he planned on making it come true. He then knocked me out. At the time, when I got to school with the Peeler, I saw Danny handing in the answers. But then Danny convinced Clockwork to give me my memory of the incident back so that he would have someone to talk to about the fight."
"And...?" Maddie asked hoping to hear more about the fight
"I don't know if I was more scared or proud" Jazz admitted "Scared because we were tied to the boiler that was about to explode. But proud because of the fight Danny put up. As obvious, he won. Danny defeated pure evil"
"I'm sure our Danny had been buried way down deep inside evil Danny" Maddie said optimistically
"If I wasn't so scared of him, I'd take the Fenton Ghost Catcher to Dark Dan just to see if separating the Plasmius would bring back our Danny" Jazz said. "But enough about Dark Dan. He's a depressing subject. What have you figured out?"
"The only explanation I can find is age and amount of ecto-tricity" Maddie told her daughter.
"Ecto-tricity?" Jazz asked a bit skeptically
"Ectoplasmic energy with the same characteristics as electricity" Maddie explained. "The ecto-tricity is what fused the ectoplasm to Danny's D.N.A. making him what he is."
"That's what we figured" Jazz confirmed
"Follow me" Maddie said to her daughter as they left the kitchen and went down to the lab
When the two Fenton women got down, Maddie hit a button on her desk and the wall flipped to reveal her own personal stuff that she wouldn't let Jack even LOOK at
"Take a look" Maddie said as she had been down here earlier and had checked the blood sample that Danny had given her earlier that day.
Jazz walked over to the microscope and looked in to see the blood cells with the glowing green center. She increased the power to the microscopic level and saw the D.N.A. strands coated in ectoplasm
"It's almost as if the ectoplasm is superglued onto Danny's D.N.A." Maddie explained. "If we wanted Danny back to full human, the best way would be to recreate the accident, but that has its risks."
"Would recreating the accident get the ectoplasm off the D.N.A?" Jazz asked
"Either that or finish Danny off." Maddie said. "Which is why I have no intention of even giving Danny the IDEA of getting rid of Phantom"
"So…what does age have to do with Danny's powers?" Jazz asked with a smile at Maddie's accepting Danny's condition.
"It's quite simple really" Maddie said. "Danny was telling me a bit about Vlad's power. From the way Danny was carrying on, Vlad's more powerful. However, that is NOT the case because of the two reasons I stated earlier."
"Age and the amount of ecto-tricity" Jazz stated
"Right. Vlad was a grown man who just got a face-full of ecto-tricity which caused the ecto-acne." Maddie said. "Danny got a full body blast from all sides at the age of JUST turning 14"
"You mean…Puberty is what's making Danny stronger?" Jazz asked amazed she hadn't figured it out.
"Yes. As Danny's body grows, so does his power." Maddie confirmed before looking at the remains of the machine that Danny had accidentally destroyed with his wail. "Of course, with the power he has now AS he's developing…"
"Danny did that?" Jazz asked pointing to the machine.
Maddie nodded
"With his ghostly wail" Maddie added
"And if he's still developing…" Jazz figured as she put two and two together
It was a good thing Danny swore he'd never become evil. Because her Danny was going to be at LEAST twice as strong as Dark Danny.