"I was trying to take over the world in a day, besides I was using my powers aggressively."
Val understood. Of course Ember would try to take over the world. When happy you want to spread it about, and being a spirit she'd want to spread it quicker than humans could.
"So unlike me you tend to overdo things."
Ember blushed while glaring at Val. "So that's what he was smirking about. I should have known."
"Who was smirking about?"
"Me." Clockwork stated. "I'm your defense council. Walkers going to get a rather nasty shock, He's not going to be able to hide much of his efforts to change the rules from me. I'll be able to counter him a lot, and get this to a fair trial. The Observants will be judges, they're even minded but they can miss stuff. Far more than they're willing to admit-I had to perform a lot of temporal trickery to undo the mistake I made - on their instructions."
"Well, the charge is with your ectoplasm abilities, your obsessive and vengeful nature; you have to be a ghost."
"Obsessive and vengeful?" Val yelled.
"We may be able to partly get you off that, but I think Walker's guaranteed our star defensive witnesses will be busy... He cheats terribly. For someone so obsessed with obeying rules he breaks them a lot himself."
"That sort of person always does." Ember growled. "He cost me every relationship I formed..."
"Oh no, The Ghost Worm, he turns up at this time and if I'm not there..."
"Why so worried about a ghost worm?"
"The one Valerie fights has the chosen moniker Earthsound. I notice your concerned expression. Don't worry, Ember, he won't succeed, though he's not going be dealt with as quickly as usual."
"Good! After all, how can I take over the world if it's been destroyed?" Ember says relieved only to earn two glares, one from Valerie, and the other from Clockwork.
(Amity Park)
The ground rumbles and half of Amity's citizen's run in terror from the epicentre of what seems to be the quake. Then suddenly shoving its way up through the earth a giant ghostly worm appears causing half of the remaining crowd to run. "Tremble before the might of Earthsound, foolish mortals."
Earthsound looks to the left and right and checks behind him. Not that he actually needed to shake his 'head' about, but he had got into the habit. Could the hunter have been killed? Okay just because his arch nemesis wasn't as good as the traitor ghost didn't mean he wasn't that powerful. Still the last of the crowd should realise that the Red Hunter hadn't turned up any moment now.
"AAAAAGH! GHOST!"
Earthsound wondered why the hunter hadn't turned up. After all, she was never normally this late. Then Earthsound noticed the large army of ghosts about. He sighed, he was hoping that she had been soundly defeated, not merely otherwise occupied. Still this was an opportunity he could not afford to waste.
Time to make his castle. Buildings twisted and altered as the Earth rose to form a defensible area. It was a pity he was stuck with castle, he really wanted to modernise to bunkers, but...
Suddenly a black and white streak headed past Earthsound a landed into a wall. "Look I have problems myself. I have an invasion to deal with. Can't you just come another time?"
"How stupid are you other opponents? And do you know where Red is? She seems to be late."
"Two invasion's in one day? Oh great. This is not good at all. Still the army will take time, and I can't let you get your defenses get any more settled."
When Earthsound faced Valerie she always ambushed him, after the first knockdown, dragged out battle. Phantom however despite being more powerful than Valerie was going to get a nasty shock.
Sam winces as she sees Danny go flying back. Danny returns to the fray only to get blasted back again. Worse the ghostly wail would work on this one. If only there was a way to defeat Earthsound. Danny stood stock still and Earth sound blasted him. Danny vanished in a beam of light. Then as Sam was about to get as emotional as she did Earthsound was lifted up into the air.
"Who'd have thought Mr. Lancer had the solution?" Phantom stated before hurling the worm further into their air and dumping him into a forest. "You know you really shouldn't have told me Valerie disposed of you quicker the first time. Knowing her inaccuracy there was only one solution."
"So, Valerie Gray, born as human, you are here on trial, to see if thanks to your recent shift, you are now more ghost than human. Walker, go ahead."
"The Prosecutions belief is that all the suit did was give her a small boost. The spirit armour only brought out powers she did not know she had. Powers she inherited from her mother, such as flaming hair, as represented by the head cubes, her flying skill, and the teleportation of her suit. Taken together with her obsessive and vengeful nature, this suggests she's a ghost."
Ember shivered. That was a good case. Even though she felt there was something wrong with it. She hoped that Clockwork had a good defense.
"I do not deny that that the powers approximate what she would have if born as a spirit. Yet since the powers come from technology, despite them being ecto, Valerie Grey is still human. After all Jack Fenton uses ecto technology to roughly approximate the powers that he would have as a ghost. And we're not prosecuting him."
The Observants glared at Clockwork. "Yes, we heard about that timeline change." Then one continued "But Jack Fenton is not spirit born". The second then stated firmly, "But it is a valid point." The third coughed. "The question is whether the technology merely allows her access, or uses her latent powers as a pattern. Both sides will present each other with the evidence they have and then we will reconvene tomorrow night.