Chapter One: Controlled:
Amity Park: Four years after the Disasteroid harmlessly passed through Earth...
Life's been nothing but Hell. There is no other way to phrase is. What this world is today is not what we had hoped for only a few years ago. I'm technically an adult now. Finally turned eighteen just yesterday. I didn't have much of a party though. No time for such things.
Four years ago, my best friend, the one I loved... Was murdered by Something. Today, that something is still unknown... and somehow, someday... I am gonna figure out what, or who, it was...
For now though, I had smaller things to deal with...
"Psst. Tucker!" I rolled a Fenton Thermos to my friend. Hissing sounds surrounded us. Snake Ghosts. It was the third time this week. Tucker's favorite...
He nodded, picking it up. At the time being, we were positioned behind some crates in a warehouse. We had been there awhile. The snakes just arrived... we knew they were coming.
We wanted to make this quick and simple before we had interference from anyone else. We hid our identities by wearing all black. Of course, I was all for this. Tucker? Not so much.
"Now!" I signaled with a whisper. We jumped up from behind the crates and immediately sucked the ectos into the Fenton Thermos with ease. They were simple prey compared to some.
"Good, now lets get out of here before-" Tucker tried to say before the front wall of the warehouse was blown out.
My eyes widened. "Let's get out of here! NOW!"
I took his thermos and ran towards a hole in the back wall. We split up and went separate ways so if we were ever followed, they couldn't catch us both... after all...
The Guys in White had become quiet the nuance... And that was just a fraction of it.
. . .
I remained in the dark alleyway for an hour before deeming the the coast was clear. I took off the back suit I was wearing, and took off straight to Fenton Works... also known as my home now.
Shortly after Danny was discovered in the Nasty Burger... Maddie and Jack Fenton couldn't stand their home. All the memories of Danny...anything ghostly they had began to remind them of there lost son. It was no way for them to live... Danny's folks loved him more than any other parents I had ever seen. Losing him took something out of them that I can not explain...it's like. They weren't the Fenton's anymore... So, in an attempt to move on, the heartbroken parents moved away.. leaving the house to Jazz. I got it a few years ago when Jazz went to college. She begged me to buy the place, and of course, I did. I knew Danny wouldn't want this place in the hands of a stranger.
I walked up the the front door, started to dig my keys out...and about the time I found them...
"Sam!" The door flew open and I was pulled inside with a yelp.
"What the-" I looked at the woman in my house and was shocked by who it was, "J-Jazz?" I hadn't seen her in two years... not since she went off to college. "What the heck are you doing here?! and how the Hell did you get in here?!"
Jazz giggled, "You know, you should really get your locks changed more than ever ten years."
I sighed, "Why are you here Jazz? Don't you have a few more years of college to complete?"
"Of course I do... But I have some unfinished business here." She walked over to a picture I had of Danny and I. It was the last taken before... "I want to open the Ghost Zone up Sam."
"What?! Are you insane! Don't you think we do enough illegal activities? Something like that is punishable by death!"
I wasn't exaggerating either... Danny's death set the entire world on fire. Everyone assumed it was a ghost that killed him. This may not be wrong, but still, because there was no one ghost to point the finger at, all of them were tried and found guilty. The Guys in White division grew with better, faster, and stronger guys. All ghosts that are found in the human world were shown no mercy... when the Government found them, that was it. They were eliminated... permanently.
As for humans? No interaction between ghosts and humans was allowed. And research? That was highly illegal. That was strictly government information.
However, that didn't stop us. Not only did we do research, but we also, oddly enough, saved ghosts from being erased from reality itself. Thanks to Fenton Works, I was still able to not only catch, but release ghosts back into the Ghost Zone. I just couldn't go into the Ghost Zone myself. Not that I wanted to...If the government found out about that...well...that is just suicide.
"Sam. We have to take the next step in our investigation! We're never going to find out who killed Danny by just sitting here!"
"Jazz, We can't find Danny's killer if we're dead either." I sighed. "The government has control over ever ghost portal except the Fenton Portal because it was destroyed last time they checked."
"Exactly! So, they'll never expect us to have access to it!"
I gritted my teeth. When Jazz, Tucker, and I fixed that portal, we vowed not to use it to enter the Ghost Zone... but... She had a point. Our investigation here? It wasn't going anywhere...and whatever killed Danny... could still be out to kill others...
"Fine. I replied, struggling to let those words out of my mouth. "But Tucker's going to be here for it. If anything goes wrong, he'll know what to do."
Tucker was once the Mayor of Amity Park. He resigned after the tragedy, however. He didn't approve of anything the government wanted. That was the end of that. Now, Tucker worked to perfect his technology skills or whatever. It came in handy with our situation. We wouldn't have gotten the Fenton Portal operational again without him and his amazing skills. My friends were the best.
"Alright. I'll call him. We need to do this immediately."
. . .
Tucker typed away on the controls to the Fenton Portal, "Are we sure we want to do this?" he was as hesitant as I was. "Won't ghost try to get out this way?"
"It'd be really dumb for a ghost to come out of the Ghost Zone right now. That's like asking to be erased from exsistance..." I replied to him, hoping I was right. "There is no afterlife after the afterlife, you know?"
Jazz was flipping through one of her forbidden books of the Ghost Zone... She seemed to be looking for something...but what, I was unsure of.
With a final click, Tucker looked at us. "It's ready."
Jazz closed her book and gave a command, "Alright, open it."
I walked over with Tucker, giving him one last reassuring look before he entered in the final command code...
The glowing green aurora that the portal gave off was something no one could forget... as it lit the room, I could feel memories of my past rush into me... hate and sadness overwhelmed me, but I held myself together. "Four years. Doesn't feel that long since the last time this portal was opened..." I mummered to myself.
"Alright Jazz, now what?" Tucker said, swinging his chair so that he was facing the twenty year old red head.
"We have to find a way to enter the Ghost Zone without being noticed..."
"How in the world do you expect us to be able to do that Jazz! If we could do that, I would've tried it months ago!" I burst out, now completely annoyed. How could she be so arrogant? Did she really believe it was that easy to get around the government? Heh, I wish it were that easy.
"Lady's, calm down. We'll figure something out. It takes time and patience though. Something isn't just going to show up for us." Tucker explained, trying to prevent the fight that was so obviously brewing.
I took a deep breath and sat down. "Alright. Let's just think on it tonight... we can try to come up with an actual plan tomorrow. So much pressure will make it impossible at this rate."
A few hours ticked by slowly. Jazz went upstairs to the her old bedroom. It was obvious she didn't stay up too late at night, God, she was such a day dweller. Me and Tucker remained downstairs, researching, and thinking... Though, I hoped Tucker was more productive than I was. All I could think about was Danny...
I often caught myself staring into that portal...another world was inside there...one I was at one point very familiar with. Thinking on it now...it pained me. I missed all the things we used to do... Before the government got involved...before Danny was killed...
"What if we sent in a probe?"
I blinked, coming out of my trance and turning to look at Tucker. "A probe? That's crazy. If the government finds it, they'll trace it back to us."
"We need to see what state the Ghost Zone is in now though! We haven't seen it in four years Sam..."
That was true... I just. I was so scared of losing anyone else...
"Sam, we can't keep the world sheltered from ghosts forever. It's time to move forward."
"Alright... Let's get started on on-" The room shook violently and I fell to the floor.
"It's a spike in Ecto energy! It's off the grid!" Tucker yelled, holding onto the controls for dear life. "It's coming towards the Portal!"
"Grr..." I pushed myself up. I wasn't going to let anyone get hurt! I struggled to maintain my balance, making my ways to the controls to help Tucker close the portal...but suddenly. I froze. My heart sank to the darkest part of me...
A scream...one so distantly familiar to me. The ear piercing scream that made me want to die inside. The scream we heard the night we found Danny's body... there was no doubt. Whatever was on the other side of that portal, was what took life of the one I loved.
Something flew out of the portal... and that was the last straw. I helped Tucker with the controls. "Dammit Tucker! How much time we got?"
"A few seconds! Keep going!" We worked as fast as we could, and somehow, we managed to get the portal shut... and not a moment later... it banged violently at the door. It continued this. It was quite terrifying...
Tucker jumped out of his seat, "Don't worry Sam, whatever it is, it won't get through. The portals about to shut down completely... we can open it back up later. When it's safe again."
"What came out though? What was that?" I followed him up, getting rather concerned. Whatever it was, it plowed through a lot of our lab equipment...
A sound. One both me and Tucker knew from hearing it so often...but we hadn't heard it in over four years... the sound of a half ghost going human. With Vlad and Danny gone... There's really only one person left that made any sense.
We rushed through the rubble, moving things around... when we spotted blood on the floor. My heart sank. 'Not again...' Me and Tucker were both pale at this point. Did history repeat itself...?
Luckily, we hear a groan... and lifting the final piece of lab equipment up, Dani, in her now sixteen year old human form, was uncovered. She was still breathing... but barely. Blood gushed everywhere...whatever she was fighting, almost took her life too.
She looked up at us briefly, out of breath and smiling slightly. "I made it..thank god..." She glanced at the portal, the thing still knocking. Cringing in pain, and closing her eyes, she whispered, "Death is knocking...Please help..." before passing out from the blood loss...
