Hello readers! This is Dresner1817 wishing you a wonderful new year! Ah yes, 2014 will be a wonderful year I know it will! So to start of the new year on a Clear slat, I bring you another story that Follows after Crossing The Rubicon, One of three Hex Girl's FanFic of mine that follow my Protagonist Karl Dael. If you want to learn a bit about Karl Dael and Claudia Marlin read my fics Dusk, Dawn, and Crossing the Rubicon For details on them both. To learn about Gigagen, Read Badlands Rock Concert by Grumpydrawer. He is a great writing friend of mine and I hope you will take the time to read both of our works :)
This is my First Danny Phantom Fanfic and I hope all you top shelf-ers enjoy a new kick to the DP series. This is set 3 years after my story Crossing the Rubicon and one year after the Phantom Planet incident in the DP universe. I might return to the Hex girl's arch when I get more ideas, but right now I'm a little burned out on the Hex girls and I want to branch out to another series with great characters and enough "Grey area", Unexplored backgrounds to people and things, for a another one of my stories.
Authors Note: I own nothing, Only my OC's and It's organizations other than Gigagen which is a creation of Grumpydrawer. The armor worn by the Vulture trooper is the "Protect Gear" From Jin-Roh "The Wolf Brigade", a wonderful wonderful movie BTW! Also I'm a gun and military nut, so I will use weapon names, tactics, and other things that might as well be in Esperanto for some.
With Love ~Dresner
Danny looked on from the sky as his parents Jack and Maddie Fenton, His sister Jazz, and Friends Sam and Tucker finished bringing in the last of the remaining refuges of Amity Park in a mix of the Fenton flyers, hovering ATV style platforms that Sam and Tucker enjoyed greatly, The Specter Speeder, and the venerable Fenton RV to ferry the towns people of Amity Park away from the city. In the distance Danny Phantom could see a large purple cloud engulf the city and the faint outline of a massive figure ruling over the city like a god. His laughter echoed through out the city, as did the massive vines and plant life that grew with out end.
"Undergrowth..." Danny said to himself as he looked on at the lost city.
Undergrowth, The spirit of the plants, lord of horticulture , and high priest of the botanical, Had taken over Amity park. After fighting a losing battle with Danny Phantom, Undergrowth retreated toward the industrial section of town and taken root in a fertilize factory. The factory was known for making high strength inorganic fertilize and agricultural growth hormone for large scale farms in the central United States and Canada. The hormones and fertilize acted like steroids and boosted Undergrowth's abilities by twofold, Increasing everything with no draw backs, allowing him to engulf the city in a jungle that rivaled that of his first assault on the city one year before. Not only had the fertilizer given him an extra boost of energy, but it allowed him to expand into the near by Axion Labs with a botanical research department with its own botanical garden. The garden's held a special specimen; A collection of genetically altered Angel trumpets taken from the leaderless Vladco corporation before it's take over by a shadowy corporation known as Gigagen.
The Angel's Trumpets grew to unimaginable size in a matter of seconds once Undergrowth "Liberated" them and used his power to manipulate the trumpet's to turn it's poison into a nerve gas like fog that blanketed the city. The massive yellow and red trumpet shaped bells that is the Angel Trumpet hung down from the large sky scrapers and dumped their gas on the city without end. His super charged army of plants proved to be tougher than they were last and protected the Angel trumpets with out a second thought. The vines proved to be even tougher as well... The gas killed a large sum of people in Amity Park, but due to the help of the Fenton's and the Halfa, the toll could have been worse. The evacuation was quick and rather organized that one would expect from frighten people, But they had faith in the Fenton's and their Half Ghost son. Especially after the Phantom Planet Episode just a year ago.
Danny tried to fight Undergrowth with his ice powers, but something wasn't right... The Ice wasn't effecting him like it did before...
Every blast, every punch, every ray, and even his trump card, His Ghost Wail, couldn't phase the power of the new Undergrowth...
The Ecto-skeleton was the only thing he could think of that could defeat Undergrowth, But Jazz Destroyed it.
All he could do now was make sure that everyone was safe. The exodus below was a depressing sight for Danny, who was usually spoiled to the sweet taste of victory. But the bitter taste of defeat lingered in mouth and in the air.
"Danny! What's the situation from above?" Sam asked him over his ear piece.
"The city is lost..." He said as reality hit the Sixteen year old boy, He had lost his home and everything around him.
"DANNY WATCH OUT!" Jazz screamed over the Radio as a large Black C-130 cargo plane stormed by the young Halfa with out any regard for him or the hell in front of them. Danny passed through the plane just with in the nick of time and saw two more Black C-130 fly buy in formation with the other that almost killed him. "The army? What are they doing here?!" Danny asked into the headset. "Those aren't army son, Those planes are mark less. Galloping Ghouls Danno! Those planes have ecto-readings off the charts!" Jack Fenton, Danny's Father, shouted over the radio. Suddenly the sound of helicopters thundered below him, Danny soared toward the hills where Sam and Tucker were busy let off the last of the refuges with Jazz in the specter speeder. The country outside of Amity park was pretty ruff since it lead into the mountains and the kids, as well as the refuges, could see the entangled city of Amity Park though the cloud of poison, As well as the horrific figure of Undergrowth. Tucker was gazing through a part of Fenton binoculars toward the roar of gas turbine engines in the distance and to his surprise to see at least nine or ten black choppers, six medium size ones with tiny wings on the side with rocket pods and missiles of some kind with a large cannon on the nose along with massive Bus sized twin rotor helicopters called "Chinooks".
"From what I can tell the big ones are Chinooks, but the ones in front are different." Tucker remarked to the others. "Danny, do you copy?" Maddie, his mother, called to him over the radio.
"Yes, I copy. What's with the helicopters?" Danny asked his mother. "Yeah and what are they? I can see the Chinooks, but what are the vulture one at the front?" Tuck butted in on the other line.
"Mark V Mi-24 Superhinds, Our newest addition to the fleet." A calm motherly voice said over the radio, "Beautiful birds of prey don't you think? He-he."
"Who was that?" Sam asked Danny.
"Mom, who was that?" Danny asked his mom.
"My Name is Claudia Marlin, Paladin Claudia Marlin of Gigagen's Paranormal research division. The Brimstone Society if you will." The woman replied. "Those planes and helo's are my pups of the Wolf brigade's 1st Air Group. I hope you don't mind that we steal your thunder young blood." Claudia said with calm, yet cheerful tone.
"Your not going to be doing much help one your goons go into that cloud of poison!" Danny protested. "Yeah! What are you going to do to that overgrown weed that Danny can't do!? The city is lost!" Jazz replied to the arrogant woman on the other end. Danny gave her a scowl, "Your army isn't going to survive..."
"Sit back and enjoy the show darlings," Claudia said confidently. "Colonel Dael do you copy?" She asked.
"I copy." A strong, yet youthful, male voice replied. The voice was southern in nature, but with a hint of German in his voice.
"Are you over the city yet?" Claudia asked him.
"Jawohl, I can see overgrowth or whatever his fucking name is. Ugly bastard eh?" Col. Dael replied calmly with a little chuckle. "Damn it Karl, What have I told you about profanity on the radio?" Claudia remarked annoyingly. "Ja Ja, don't cuss on the radio and all that." Karl said in a sarcastic tone. "Dropping in five, Dael out."
Danny and his friends looked into the sky and watched as the C-130's and Choppers flew into the urban jungle that Undergrowth had created. "Those planes have something under there wings, I wonder what they are." Sam asked Tucker. Tucker looked at the black planes and saw two large containers on the wings of each plane, The C-130's broke off from one another in the form of an arrow head and dropped one of the containers on the edges of the city. The lead dropped it's two on Undergrowth himself. The containers released large white clouds above the city that lingered with in the nerve gas that Undergrowth's Angel trumpets spewed into the air.
"Tucker do you know what they are..." Jazz asked tucker before massive explosions thundered above the ciyt.
"Their nuking the city!" Jazz shouted in terror.
"No! Look at the clouds! Those are Fuel-Air bombs!" Tucker yelled as he pointed at the yellowish color of the explosions. "They are sucking all the poison into the air and burning it!"
"The roots are burning too! I'm going in!" Danny yelled as he flew toward the city to confront Undergrowth with the Super hind gunships. The pilots and door gunners of the gunships waved at Danny as they flew toward the city. Danny was a little uncomfortable with these guys, something didn't seem right. But he was kind of happy to have some backup with him, especially the firepower that these gunships were packing.
"Sterilization complete, Commence airborne operation." A pilot with a thick Russian accent called over the radio. "Positiv!" A German pilot replied. Danny watched as the Three C-130's rejoined each other in an arrow formation above the city.
Inside each of the C-130's were a companies worth of the battle harden warriors of the Wolf brigade's 6th Battalion, The infamous Vulture gruppe. The Vulture gruppe is known throughout the whole of Brimstone and Gigagen for their specialty as "Supernatural Crowd Control" with the use of Heavy weapons firing anti-ghost munitions, Iron bullets blessed with Holy Water. The trade mark of the Vultures were their Shock troops, Heavily armored battle troops clad in Kampfküriss Typ 92 Ausf.V "Helghast" Power Armor and brandishing MG-42 heavy machine guns, along with the merciless brutality of its own troops against paranormal entities. The big guns, black armor, black uniforms, and the over all brutality of it soliders earned them the nickname of "The Black Hunters", a name that echoed through out the Paranormal world with both Fear and admiration, Terror and respect, and Scorn. Under the Command of Colonel Karl "Carolus" Dael, A former roadie, Decorated officer of the Estovakian army, turned Trump Card for the Order, The brimstone society, the Black hunters became the heavy hand for the order when magic and paranormal means proved worthless.
The Colonel was a tall man of twenty six with short thick brown hair, green eyes, Clean Goat-T, and medium build wearing a grey tunic and trousers tucked into a pair of Confederate officers boots, Black Trench coat, A light blue and white checkerboard scarf rapped around his neck and over his collar that bore the single oak leaves of a Estovakian Colonel, A black M43 field cap with sliver piping atop his head, and a sliver Mauser pistol on his hip. On his cap bore the alchemists symbol for Brimstone, a Lorraine cross crossed with the infinity symbol, cast from silver pinned on his cap and a badge with the same mark. Over the last four years, Karl has gone from a hick living in a trailer in rural New York state, To a solider fighting in a parallel world, and now to a full Colonel charge with the power of a far away dimension, The Black Sun Dimension, and used as a super weapon against the enemies of the mortal world.
The Black Sun, an ancient symbol of Germanic paganism, or Schwatz Sonne or Sonnenrod (Sun wheel) as it is known, represents the virtues of triumph, life, goodness, and unity and centrality. The symbol also held a more supernatural meaning that only powerful droids and occult priests of all religions could understand... The power of the Black sun was housed with in special relics cast using the fire of the black sun itself and was given to a small circle of men deemed worthier of its light by these powerful priests, One of these relics belonged to a dear friend of the Colonel... A friend that died with a good heart in the end...
Pressing the relic against his heart, The Relic fused itself with Karl's heart and soul giving him the power to conger its might power at will. Giving him the strength, power, and might of a Demigod. But even a Demigod has it's weaknesses, The power of a Black Sun relic can kill it's wearer if the power is used to an extreme...
Charged with the power of the Black Sun, Karl was a force to be fear, even with out his battalion to back him up. But even the power housed with in his soul did not define him, His men knew this. Rumors spreed through the ranks that before Karl joined Brimstone, that he was in a romantic relationship with the Drummer from a Band called the "Hex Girls", some say he was married to that girl judging by the ring on his finger, but most didn't say anything and kept to themselves. For good reason, The Colonel never like being asked about the ring or about his life before Brimstone.
Behind the Colonel were the men of his beloved Battalion, one hundred and twenty eight out of the three hundred plus units in total for this operation at least. Twenty eight of which were apart of the Zauberei Korps (Sorcery Corps in german), The Paranormal detachment of Brimstone made purely out of Supernatural entities and beings. Most of them were Sorceress and witches, Like Their Commander Claudia Marlin, while sum were men and women charged with modest amounts of Black Sun energy to make them Super human, but not at the levels that their Black coated Colonel was at. The twenty eight member of the ZK were the lead units that were to assault Undergrowth, while the remaining men were to land via parachute on to the buildings near the beast to cover them with MG and rocket fire.
Karl turned to look at his troops one last time before the assault began. Their confidant faces warmed Karl's cold heart, as did the genuine cheeriness in their voices. Some were young men and women who came from far way lands to travel globe and grain the vast amount of riches that were promised to them by the Doctor for their service, others wanted to fight to protect their world from the evil of the unknown, while some joined for the same reason Karl did...
For a place to call home...
His troops were clad in pea-pattern camoflage uniforms, Paratrooper boots, and steel helmets, looking almost like German Fallschirmjagers (Paratroopers) to go along with their German theme. The 6th Battalion were recruited mostly from Belka, A country in the parallel version of earth that appeared to be like Germany in every way, and brought to his world after his return to this world. To remind them of home, Karl stuck to the theme and spoke mostly in German/Belkan in respect for their Fatherland. They, along with himself, wore the Belkan uniform with pride and still wore the Black, White, and yellow shield of Holy Belka on their helmets and sleeves. Most of the men cradled modernized FG-42 battle rifles with shorten barrels, black furniture, and tactical rails like modern assault rifles. A majority of the Vulture's weapons were of rebuilt and modernized world war two stock and chose to stick with the old gear even though a majority of Gigagen was armed with cutting edge Russian weapons like the AK-12 Assault Rifle, but chose to stick to their roots instead. The Witches and Sorceresses on the other hand wore the Maroon coats and riders boots of the Zauberei Korps, as well as the sliver broaches hanging around their necks by steel chains. They preferred to use their magic instead of guns and proved to be proficient in taking out the paranormal pretty easily, but still enjoy the thought of having the firepower an army behind them to keep the ash and trash off of their backs.
"Opening bay doors! Drop in sixty seconds!" The German pilot shouted over the intercom as the loading ramp of the C-130 began to drop to reveal a city covered in foliage, both green and alive, while others were burned to ashes. The Angel Trumpets were burning from the Themobaric drop and the defenses that the monster set up, mainly thorn covered vines, killer cacti, and man eating plants had suffered the same fate. Karl was worried about the abilities of the creatures own power of regeneration and the possibility that the Trumpets might come back from the burning, "Masks! I want everyone wearing a gas mask! If that gas enters your lungs you better start packing for Valhalla!" Karl shouted to his troops and into the radio. "Jawohl!" The men and the radio replied as they dawned their standard issue gas masks and respirators.
"Twenty seconds!" The intercom shouted.
"This is it comrades! Once more into the breech and then we can get some beers later, But first we need a little fire to warm us up. See you on the ground boys!" Karl said in low, but confidant tone as he stood near the open cargo bay door with his coat tails fluttering in the air.
"Macht Schnell!" Karl shouted as he jumped out of the plane with the ZK members. Behind the ZK's were the paratroopers with their chutes deploying just in time and guiding themselves toward near by buildings to take up firing positions. Karl and the ZK's didn't near parachutes, they were superhuman, and glided through the sky and jumped from roof top to roof top once they reached the ground.
"Flesh walkers!" Undergrowth hissed as he saw the incoming attack, launching waves of thorns into the sky like Flak to attack the paratroopers. Karl fired a blast of teal black sun energy from his hand burned the thorns before they touched his soliders. The ZK's began firing rays of their own at Undergrowth, Burning his arms to crisps.
"HAHA, Insulate humans! You can't defeat a being who can regenerate!" Undergrowth chuckled arrogantly as his arms returned and sent his man eating plants after the assault group. Karl drew his mauser pistol and fired at the on coming man eaters, tearing them to tatters and even wounding Undergrowth who let out a high pitched wail as the Iron bullets tore into his chest leaving permanent marks on his chest. "Ahhugh, You'll pay for that flesh walker!" He shouted as he launched another attack, this time at the lead who soiled his form.
Karl once again attacked with the holy iron of his mauser and the fire of black sun, carefully balancing his use of his own power. The ZK's broke off and hit the ground fighting, attacking the vines around Undergrowth to keep him on his toes. While the Vulture grenadiers mowed down his man eaters and cacti with Panzerschreck Anti-Tank weapons and MG-42 machine guns loaded with Iron and Incendiary bullets from the roof tops. Karl didn't break off and headed straight for undergrowth...
Undergrowth focused all his attention on Karl as his blind rage lead to the ZK's and Vultures withering him down. Karl holstered his pistol as the air raced past him at blistering speeds as he dived toward the massive botanical spirit like an arrow. With his arms out in front of him like a diver, he charged his body with the teal energy of the Black sun until an aura formed around him. Karl picked up speed as he took the form of a diver and the energy of the black sun made him into a human cruise missile. Undergrowth tried desperately to quarrel the relentless attack by Karl, but all his attacks were in vain as the human cruise missile cut through his chest and burrowed deep with in his vine like body.
"No! No! GET OUT OF ME HUMAN!" Undergrowth scream in terror as he ripped into his own body to pry Karl out of him. Suddenly teal fire shot from the grounds around him, burning his roots and vines to cinders. "AHHHUGH! NOT LIKE THIS!" Undergrowth plead in terror as the blaze engulfed him, cooking him from the inside out and sending him crashing into the ground with a thunderous crash that shook the city to its core. The sound of cheering filled the empty streets of Amity Park as the three hundred strong Gigagen force rejoiced as the monster lay dying in front of them. The Vulture troops and ZK's were not finished, they knew this from experience, and began to comb the city for any ruminates of Undergrowth and systematically destroy them before he rose again. The Super Hind Gunships joined them after the titanic struggle and gave support when ever they could, While the Chinooks began loading the remains of the mutated angel trumpets into their cargo bays.
Danny scanned the city for Undergrowth and found him laying in the park covered in grossest burns and raked with bullet holes. His right arm lay a few feet from his body, but did not rejoin with his body like Danny expected. It just laid on the scorched sod of the Amity City Park lifeless with sparse teal embers burning inside it. Undergrowth's bird like face was rattled with holes from the 8.8cm rockets and the blue flames from the lead attacker. One of his crimson and soulless eyes was missing and replaced with a burning pit of fire, the same fire that chard and blackened the rest of his body.
"Whoa, this is brutal..." Danny said in a disturbed tone as he gazed on the defeated and dying corpse of Undergrowth.
"Ghost child..." The tired and defeated voice of Undergrowth coughed to life.
"Undergrowth?" Danny asked, surprised that he was live. "Yes Ghost child, come closer..." Undergrowth groaned as he turned his head toward him, his eye filled with regret and hopelessness. Danny hesitantly walked toward the dying Undergrowth and the ghost gave a weak grin, "I never expected to go out this way... I expected for you to end my existence, not by his hands..." Undergrowth said in heavy breaths as he tried to fight his emanate fate.
"What do you mean "His hands"?" Danny asked Undergrowth as his breathing became less frequent, a sigh of a man on his last leg.
"Mithras..." Undergrowth whispered before his death...
"Mithras?" Danny asked as he gazed upon the corpse of Undergrowth. The ghost boy backed up from the body, overwhelmed by the brutality that surrounded them. It was to much for the sixteen year old, fighting against the supernatural abominations of the ghost zone was one thing, But the sadistic murder of a ghost, whether they were good or evil, was crossing the line. The corpse shook violently and the chest cavity of the plant ghost ripped open to revile a gas masked figure dressed in a black trench coat walking out of the body with out a scratch. Danny's ghost sense came to life as the figure turned his head and gazed at him.
The figure took off his gas mask to reveal a man in his late twenties with his eyes glowing from bright teal to dark green. Danny took an aggressive stance and spoke to the figure, "How could you do this to a ghost? Who are you?"
The figure smirked, "He was a threat and had to be put down." He remarked coldly. "I don't enjoy killing, But done in the name of the Gods and the Black sun, It is chore like any other. I can not lie though, I did enjoy the fight that this one gave." He chuckled.
The chuckling and nonchalant attitude of the black coated figure was unnerving to the veteran ghost fighter, "That doesn't answer my question, Who are you? Are you this Mithras character?" Danny demanded from the chuckling figure as his eyes turned green from ghostly anger.
"Hmm, Nice color for a halfa. I suggest that you calm yourself before you yourself face the same fate as this one." The figure said, pointing at the body of Undergrowth. His eyes began to glow teal and clenched his teeth anticipation for another battle against.
"Karl, quiet fucking around and return to the rally point. The Fenton's are will to help us get the portal working, so get over here and try not to kill their half breed son." Claudia called over the radio. The figure put his hand on the ear piece, "Jawohl, on the way Madam Marlin."
"Your that Colonel that lady was talking to..." Danny remarked as his eyes turned back to normal.
"Yes, Yes I am." Karl replied as he toned down his power. "We can talk formally when this is over, But now I bid you adieu Danny Phantom."
Karl leaped into the air and soared through the sky like a fighter plan toward the rally point, The former residence of Mayor Vlad Master... With Danny Phantom on his trail.