Danny awoke with a start. Pain rippled through his body. His head pounded and his insides felt like jelly. He tried to move, but couldn't. He was in his parent's lab, and he was strapped down to some sort of metal chair. He had restraints lining his arms, legs and waist, causing him to be unable to move a muscle. He could see white gloves, boots and the logo on his chest. He sighed in relief as he realized he was still in his ghost mode.
He looked at the chair he was in. Just above his head was a huge silver claw. Danny cringed. He hoped this wasn't what he thought it was. Behind him he could just see the edge of a huge clear container. A few feet in front of him was a small control panel; in the smack middle it read "Spectra Signa" Danny's heart leapt into his throat. His parents were gonna pull the life out of him!
He started to panic. He had to get out of this chair! He tried to go intangible or even simply go invisible so no one could find him, but his powers wouldn't work. He couldn't even feel them beginning! He started to sweat as his mind thought as fast as lightning of a way to escape.
Then, he heard someone come down the stairs. "Oh no! No! Not now!" he struggled even more.
"Maddie! The ghost kid is awake!" Jack ran up to Danny. He was holding an ecto-gun. Danny moved his head away as Jack shoved it in his face.
His Mom ran into the room, fully equipped with ghost weapons. Maddie ran up next to Jack.
She looked Danny in the eyes. Although he had one closed, she saw something quite familiar in those glowing green eyes. The eyes of the ghost boy sitting in front of her shaking in fear; he reminded her of her own son. She quickly dismissed this ruthless thought and shoved another weapon in Danny's face.
Danny immediately regained his courage, "What are you gonna do to me?"
"You're going to be the first ghost we use our new machine on. It's called the Spectra Signa. It will find your ectoplasmic signature and rip it out." Jack continued to talk about his new invention, but it was all blurred in Danny's mind.
"I'm only half ghost! There's no telling what it'll do to me! My own parents are going to kill me! Maybe Jazz will come down and get me out!" Danny brightened at the thought of his sister coming and stopping his parent's attempts to rip him up, "Mom will you stop staring at me!"
"- and now it's time to test this baby!" Maddie backed up. She and Jack stood behind the control panel. Jack pulled out the white and grey remote they had this morning and pressed the button in the middle.
Danny heard something above him charge up. He looked up and saw a green pulse bouncing around the claw. He looked at his parents. His father held a face filled with pure triumph, but his mom's held a hint of worry.
The claw began to lower, the green still rippling through it, until it was squarely in front of Danny's chest. It made a lunge at him and penetrated into Danny's torso. It didn't break anything, though, it was like when you put you hand in water, it will brake through the surface and you can touch it, but it doesn't break.
"Ecto- signature detected," The machine said.
The green pulse shot through Danny's body as the claw clasped on to some invisible force inside Danny. Danny screamed; he began to squirm and sweat. His eyes were clenched shut and his fingers flexed from fist form to completely spread out as the pain reached his fingertips.
The claw pulled at something that felt as if it was ripping the life out of Danny. He started to lose energy and strength at a drastic rate. His head spun and his body burned.
A liquid began to travel up the cord of the claw and into the container behind him, but it wasn't green; it was black and white. Danny's face paled and he stopped screaming. His head hung as the liquid continued to travel from his body.
"He looks so pitiful so helpless," Maddie thought. She wanted to catch a ghost extremely badly, but she never thought he would look this way. His face looked like a dejected child's would after a mother yelled at him for a wrong doing. She looked away, not wanting to look at the face that haunted her mind with familiarity.
"Transfer completed," the Spectra Signa was just finishing its task.
As it drained the last ounce of ectoplasm from Danny, his parents stared in amazement. The blue rings formed around his waist and separated, leaving their son; their one and only 14 year old son.
They stood speechless. How could this happen? It's not possible! Danny can't be the…Danny's the ghost boy! No, it's a mistake. Danny isn't there, the ghost kid is playing a trick on us. My son is at school! But it looks like Danny, Is that really my son?"
All this ran through their minds.
"Jack! We need to get Danny out of there!" Maddie slammed on the release button.
Danny fell to the floor in front of them, once again, unconscious.
