"Could we move on?" Eddie signed, still holding Mckenzie in his arms, who was still crying.
"Sure thing" Danny agreed.
There were a lot more files to read. In these Vlad described finally getting a chance to observe the halfa gene. Danny and his friends read them until midnight. After reading all the files, Danny had a new perspective on half ghosts. He wondered how many more were more out there, what abilities they possessed, were they hero or villain? These were questions that would be answered later. Right now Danny had to focus on defending Amity Park. Often times he wondered whether Amity Park could survive without him. When it wasn't being plagued with ghosts, it had one of the highest crime rates in America. That and it had a police force more corrupt than Gotham's police force and LAPD combined.
While Danny was more used to dealing with ghosts than any of his partners, Shady had more experience fighting criminals. Sure, he had a Punisher esque, shoot first, ask questions never method that made him more of a vigilante than a hero, but he was effective nonetheless. If it wasn't for Danny being around, Eddie would have a higher bodycount than most of the scum in Amity Park. Eddie was more accustomed to solving problems without his powers and rarely used them when fighting humans, but that didn't mean he didn't use lethal force. His life in Vice City had taught him how to deal with murderers, theives, drug dealers, even terrorists. The thing that scared criminals the most about Eddie was his always emotionless face. He never displayed any emotions. It often seemed as if Eddie took pleasure in inflicting pain on criminals leading to some people saying Danny was lucky he was a good guy.
Danny acted as the more passive Yin, Eddie was the more aggressive Yang. Most people couldn't see how they could work as a cohesive unit, but it was their different styles that allowed them to succeed. However that didn't mean they never clashed heads.
The next day, Eddie visited Tucker at City Hall. Invisibly phasing through the window, he crept behind Tucker and transformed himself into a small firecracker before popping, scaring the hell out of Tucker.
"Man, I hate when you do that!" Tucker whined.
"Ah, come on Tuck, it's all in good fun" Eddie assured him.
"Aren't you and Danny supposed to be patrolling the town?" Tucker asked.
"Yeah, but we had an argument when I interrogated a criminal by dangling him by his leg 200 feet above ground. The guy didn't think I had the guts to drop him. Foolish man. So after Danny caught him, he started yelling at me so I decided to leave," Eddie signed
"Why didn't you go hang out with the girls?" Tucker asked.
"McKenzie's still recovering from the breakdown she had last night so I thought it would be best if I left her alone and besides she, Sam, Valerie, and Danielle always side with Danny." Eddie signed in response before noticing the folder on Tucker's desk. "Hey, what you working on?"
"They're emergency plans" Tucker told him before locking the folder away in a file cabinet.
"Emergency plans for what?" Eddie asked.
"Remember when Mckenzie first became a halfa and she went insane and was evil for a while?" Tucker asked him.
Eddie's face contorted in anger as he was reminded of those events. "Yeah, I remember, why?"
"Well that wasn't the first time Sam, Danny and I have seen an evil version of one of us" said Tucker.
"Please tell me more?" Eddie signed, pulling up a seat.
"Two years ago, Danny encountered an evil alternate universe future version of himself called Dan Phantom. He was one of the most powerful foes we ever faced and he nearly killed us. After Danny captured him, I wrote down ways we could take down Danny in case he somehow did manage to go rogue. When Mckenzie became and evil halfa, I decided to write down ways to take her down. As Sam and Valerie became more dangerous hunters and Dani got stronger, I decided to find methods to capture the whole team in the event we went rogue." Tucker revealed.
"So you've got ways to defeat all of us, yourself included, if we became evil?" Eddie asked.
"Yep," The techno geek confirmed.
"Cool" Eddie signed. "I always knew you were a crouching moron, hidden badass"
"Thanks" Tucker replied.
"So you mind explaining to me how these plans of yours work?" Eddie asked.
"No can do, friend; these are top secret" Tucker said.
"Alright; hey wanna go play some video games?" Eddie signed.
"Well I've finished my duties for today, I guess a few video games couldn't hurt" Tucker said, switching off the light and departing.
After they left, shadowy figure entered through the window. The figure went in the cabinet, retrieved the emergency plans, uploaded the data onto a computer and saved it onto a flash drive before leaving.
Later that day.
The rest of the day had been rather slow, there was a lack of any ghost attacks even from the Box Ghost. Danny noted how quiet things were but it didn't bother him. Having a rare break Danny played a card game called Natural Disasters with Sam, Tucker, Dani, and Eddie.
"Fire beats wood" Sam said, laying down her card.
"But water beats fire" Tucker said.
"Sun dries up water" Danny replied.
"And thunderstorm blocks out sun" Dani said.
"I'm out" Sam declared.
"Me too" said Tucker
"One word," Danny said before revealing a card marked with a twister. "Tornado"
"I'm out" Dani said, throwing her cards down.
"Sorry Danielle, I'm just too good" Danny said taking all of the cards.
"Hold on, I still have one card" Eddie signed.
"Really? How is that one card going to help you?" Danny asked.
"What's the matter, Danny? Chicken?" Eddie signed. "One last round, winner take all"
"You're on, Eddie" Danny replied before pulling out a card depicting an earthquake. "Haha, earthquake beat that"
"Well, OK" Eddie signed before he placed his card on the table, a mint condition card wrapped in protective plastic which featured the Earth crumbling apart. Everyone gasped in disbelief.
"Apocalypse?" Danny exclaimed unable to believe his eyes.
"The super ultra mega rare card that beats all other cards." Tucker said, observing the card to make sure it was authentic. "Word has it that only 3 of these cards were made"
"I win" Eddie signed, taking all of the cards.
"What do you say to a rematch?" Danny asked.
Before Eddie could accept, however the duo disappeared in a flash of lightning.
"Uh, is this part of the game?" Valerie asked.
Danny and Shady found themselves standing before the Master of Time, Clockwork.
"Clockwork?" Danny greeted confused.
"Do not be alarmed, I simply wish to warn you of an upcoming disaster that only you and you're friend can stop" Clockwork told them.
"What, did Dan get free?" Danny asked.
"Not that big of a disaster, but close. Plasmius and the Guys in White are planning a takeover of the Ghost Zone." Clockwork revealed.
"Vlad, but I thought-" Danny replied but Clockwork shook his head.
"He was merely laying low" said Clockwork.
"We've beaten Vlad and the Guys in White before, taking them down should be no problem" Eddie signed.
"Maybe so, but one of your teammates will betray you" Clockwork revealed.
"What, who?!" Danny demanded to know.
"I can not tell you at the time, but be cautious of your friends" Clockwork warned before returning Danny and Eddie.
"I'd like to point out how careless the author was in having Clockwork warn us about a traitor in our midst but not telling us who the traitor is. That's just bad storytelling, although I suppose if he told us who the traitor was we wouldn't have much of a plot" Eddie signed.
"What are you talking about?" Sam asked.
"What, you guys don't see the guy sitting at his desk on laptop typing everything that goes on?" Eddie asked.
"No, but I can see that you're insane" Valerie replied.
"Maybe so, but you can't tell me you don't see the author. At least tell me you see the quotation marks around all our sentences, or the exclamation point at the end of this statement to demonstrate the nature of this sentence even though I'm mute and using sign language!" Eddie signed. "Hey author, I don't need you telling me what I did"
"Eddie, I think you might have suffered a nervous breakdown like McKenzie, go home and get some rest" Dani insisted.
"I'm not suffering a breakdown! But I am getting pissed that I can't yell to express my anger!" Eddie replied.
"Forget about it, Eddie right now we've got to stop Vlad and the Guys in White from taking over the Ghost Zone" Danny said.
"Wait, Vlad's back and he's teamed up with The Guys in White?" Asked Tucker.
"Yeah, and like I just said they're planning to take over the Ghost Zone" Danny revealed.
"Why exactly would that be a bad thing?" Valerie asked.
"Because knowing the Guys in White they'll probably try to destroy it which will cause a chain reaction that'll destroy the world" Danny revealed.
"We've got to do something" Dani said.
"We're going to have to do something otherwise we're going to end up dead" Danny said before pulling out tracking devices.
"Where did you get those?" Sam asked.
"Vlad had plenty of these. I'm attaching these tracking devices/ video cameras to everyone. The one who removes it will immediately be presumed to be the traitor" Danny explained.
"So basically you're going to be spying on us to see which one of us is the rat?" Tucker asked.
"Precisely" Danny said.
"This is stupid" Dani muttered.
"This is just to make sure the traitor doesn't get in the way of stopping the Guys in White" Danny assured, placing a tracking device on each of them. Afterwards Eddie walked over to him.
"Just because you're leader doesn't mean you couldn't be the traitor. So until the author reveals the real traitor I'll be watching you" Eddie signed.
Little did anyone know the traitor had already sold them out.