Phantom trio
Pixel Specter
His PDA was ringing soft tunes, it was eight O'clock in the morning and Tucker woke up groggily. He Force himself to walk down to the kitchen where he'll have his bacon & eggs breakfast with fruits juices. His mother had greeted him while his father was finishing his cacao mug reading the news.
Tucker had mindlessly read that there was a panther monster rampage a few days ago and that. He then remember yesterday night that Danny is quite busy with it because it run really fast, faster that his ecto-blast, which is already faster than a bullet gun.
A well, it's not like he's capable of anything for now, Tucker can't even hold long his ghost form and have trouble controlling his flight speed and his intangibility control his still unperfected… 'CLANG'… like now: he drop his fork making a lousy noise dragging his parent's attention to him. How is that they never saw his translucid arm when it goes intangible by accident is beyond him.
"Hum… mustn't be fully awake… hehe" Timidly respond the young teenager. Then his parents shrug it off, but he did hear his mom lecture him: "well try to not break anything, alright meatloaf?"
Once breakfast, shower, dress up and more importantly downloading the latest software's invented, Tucker went out. Only there was somebody outside who was about the ring the bell: it was Valerie.
"Hye Tuck! I wanted to ask you something!" She beamed, startling even more the teenage geek, his wild imagination had come up with 'she's going to ask me out!' or 'she's knows everything and will shoot us down to hell!' or even 'did she know it was me who publish those photo of her in swim suit on the school website?!'
"I'm… wanted to ask you… about Phantom…. You see, I'm decide to give myself a chance at a reporter carrier and decide to investigate and wrote about the ghost boy, if he's really a hero or not and other questions about him…" She was quite embarrassed while explaining what she was doing. Tucker knew that she was, since a certain time now, more dedicated for ghost hunting or investigation but he soon decides that he might actually get valuable info's from what she already know and even better: convinces her that Phantom is a hero, a clumsy teenager but a hero.
"Sure, if you accept that we go to Sam house while you're interviewing me. We were planning a bowling competition for today." The geek proposed, but he knew he was lying. There's a very good chance that Sam had went to their secret base, training her ghost powers. "I just need to warn her with my PDA phone function."
"Alright then!" She agreed. Tucker grabs his trusty PDA and calls his friend numbers, but she never answer it and instead he was greeted by her answer cell phone. "That's weird? I guess I'll call back later then." Tucker conclude, he then turn back to Valerie: "Let's go, at worst we'll go somewhere like the park or the Nasty Burger."
"I'm ok for the park! I spend too much time in the Nasty Burger kitchen to stand food smells!" She answer him quickly, clearly feeling sick just the mention of the fast food restaurant.
They both went on their road to Sam's house, Tucker lunching the conversation: "So, what do you want to know about Phantom?" Valerie was hesitating but then soon found her first question: "Do you believe that Phantom is a good ghost or a bad one?"
He answer:"Definitely a good one, all the damage he cause are more of mistakes or bad luck than anything, if it's not from either his ghostly opponent or the ghost hunters! Don't say I say this but, the Fenton's adults are better inventor than hunters and the Guys in White are simply worst than anything possible!"
Valerie chuckle nervously: "true, even if we turn on them a blind eye on their own faults and rather points out Phantom's ones. Who you think is the most competent ghost hunter in town?"
He responds her with: "Hmm, well even if she generally waste occasions to catches minors ghost for the Phantom, it would be the Red Huntress, the other masqued hero of our town."
Valerie flushed a bit at the compliment: "Really?! Well … anyway have you seen any other ghost fighting others ghosts like Phantom?" she was beginning to take notes with a pencil and a paper notepad. Tucker pities her a little, with the tech around us and there's still peoples who can't buy a PDA to write notes! Still, he continues on: "Well, I saw from distance and a few times ghosts screaming at each other, but you could clearly tell it was more of personal business deal with force than anything else."
Valerie take notes, and she was about to ask more but was cut short by a loud cackling. Green electricity coming from lamppost, phone lines and neon sign was gathered in the center of the street, forming Technus Electricus, ghostly master of all electronic inventions. The green skinned ghosts had white hair tied back, an elderly yet vigorous sharp face, his black square glasses give him a mad scientist character and his grey cape and matrix like coat just add to it. And let's not forget his never ending speeches: "HAHA! I TECHNUS, HAD FINALY FOUND YOU AGAIN, RED HUNTRESS! I'M HERE TO CLAIM BACK WHAT I OFFER YOU BEFORE. WITH IT, AND MY POWERS, WE WILL DEFEAT THE PHANTOM AND THEN START TAKING OVER THE WORLD!"
Valerie just stares at the ghost a good minute, before answering him: "What the heck are you talking about?"
Technus was cut short in his evil gloating: "Hu? You're not the Red Huntress?! I mess it up again?"
Valerie angrily reforms her question: "What you mean by 'what you offer before'. And no it's not me; I'm just a teenage girl aiming for a reporter career on ghosts."
The ghost face went flat: "Hu?! It's not you; I thought that I repair and upgraded your suit so you could give a hell of distraction to Phantom! Guess I mistaken you."
Valerie had to use all her actress talent to not express realization; she had thought 'So that's where my new suit came from! And that also explain why it was possessed! He's must behind all that fiasco around the supercomputer in my dad workplace'
Then Valerie grabs Tucker closer to her and whispers him: "go away and call for the Fentons! You should do that rapidly right?" the Geek nodded and run away in a nearby allay. Then Valerie runs to the opposite one. Leaving Technus debating on if he's been tricked or if he really has mistaken the girl for the Red Huntress.
Tucker was about to reach his PDA to call Danny when he suddenly saw his hot yellow transforming ring. In a second he change into his ghostly self, his skin had turn deep emerald-green, his eyes glow an electric yellow, his cloth have been turn into a gold jumpsuit with black boots, gloves, belt and necklace and also had yellow or black pixels motif moving randomly over his suit. But the most important fact at the minute: His PDA was left in his human form and so he can't use it to call Danny right now. He still can't summon at will his transforming rings!
"Well Well well! That's an impressive suit you got here!"
Tucker turn his head to look back at Technus smiling eagerly, he then continue on: "I was planning to use your PDA to scan the Axion Labs files so I could found the Red Huntress secret identity, but I guess using you to bait the ghost boy would be more efficient! It would be definitely more fun!"
Tucker went in panic mode. What's he going to do? He can't fight Technus, especially since he had upgraded himself in the version 2.0! He can't go back human too, and if he don't hide quickly he might change again in front of Valerie who's about to be…
"FREEZE SPOOK! I HEARD MILES AWAY YOU WHERE LOOKING FOR ME! WELL YOU HAVE MY WELCOME NOW!"
…About attacking them right now, in her Red Huntress disguise.
Technus turn back only to stare at the girl: "Wait?! I didn't mess up! It was really you and you lied to cover yourself! Then I did mess up since I fall for it…."
Technus didn't finish his rant, he's been cut by a huge blast from Valerie heavy rocket launcher like blasters. Technus was groaning in pain, smashed in a crater in the middle of the alley, inches away from Tucker who was praying gods to go invisible right now and then run for his half-life.
"DO YOU KNOW THE CONCEPT OF SECRET IDENDITY?! WELL THAT'S WHY I KEEP THE HELMET!" Scream the Red Huntress. Then she notice Tucker in his ghost form nearby the crater she made.
"You there! Who are you? His lackey?" the grumpy girl harshly asks the new ghost. Tucker just stares at her and then answers just as harshly as her: "DO I LOOK LIKE A SIDEKICK?! Well for your information, Valerie, I happen to be here at the wrong place and moment! I only want to be left alone!"
The girl was shocked when she heard her real name, she menacingly shoots back: "HOW DO YOU KNOW MY NAME?!"
Tucker face palm himself, he thought 'Me and my lame joking mouth!' but then hastily dodge another blaster from Valerie. The girl should really see Jazz about her anger management, especially when she held a gun!
"You as my sidekick? But that's an even better idea! I really will have use of you when I enslave your suit under my command and control!" Technus beamed up his crater, staring right at Tucker and then Valerie.
The two teenagers where freaked out by the tech ghost dangerous thought, he's actually planning to turn them evil! The geek thought again 'Danny! I just gain my own arch nemesis in just two weeks!'
"I, Technus, had managed to stole those helmets from Nocturne place" the ghost rise out of his pocket two helmets Nocturne had used in the past to collect people dreams energy. "With the proper modification, these babies will brainwash you into obedient sidekicks! You'll get kicks out of ruling the world and using techs! Get it?!"
Tucker went blank at the sight of the helmets: "Ho no! Seriously dude, brainwashing helmets?! And your jokes on sidekicks are getting even lamer as you go on!" Valerie adds her though to his: "Did we just get suck up into a lame science fiction film or what?"
Technus grumble: "Well I believe that it's an awesome and quite realistic plan. Just you wait to see!... on second thought you might never give a thought since you'll be brainwashed." Then out of the blues his eyes shoot thunder ecto-blast through his glasses, knocking Valerie of her jet board.
He also hit Tucker but instead of being shock by electricity, he absorbs it and his hand glows with moving yellow-red pixels. In surprised move the ghostly geek shoot this pixel energy back to the ghost, but Technus shield himself with the helmets. The same helmets take the blow and in a flash of pixels turn into pixilated blue bomb with lit matches.
"What in the super tech's did I do?!" exclaimed Tucker when he saw the transformation he accidently do. Valerie pulls herself together then looks at Technus, or more likely the bombs he's still shielding with. She fearfully asks: "Tell me they're not goanna blow on us!"
The tech ghost peek at his surrounding only to then stare in horror at the bomb, he then miserably exclaime, just before the matches finished consuming: "Bomb voyage!"
BOOOOOUM!
Valerie and tucker are expulsed high in the air, screaming in agony! Valerie was caught up by her jet in the sky, while Tucker fall straight to the park lake. But the geek soon jumps out screaming through electroshocks. Once he quickly reaches the lake sand border, he let himself fall on the ground panting and exhausted, water seems to totally deplete him from his energy when he's a ghost. Or maybe Technus thunders attacks are finally doing their purpose: shocking him!
The ghostly geek then notices an angry red light in the sky….. 'Tell me it's not her…. I beg you up there, make it note be her!' he miserably pray in his head.
It happens to what he really doesn't want to be: a pissed off Red Huntress seeking for his guts.
He mumbles: "I hate you, life!" then he dodges the large laser red blast. He then runs screaming from the angry girl.
"Stay put! You ecto-punk!" Valerie yells at him, Tucker screams back: "I'm a nerd! Get it?!"
Tucker then saw bushes and decide to see if his training is now paying off or not. The nerd jump in the bushes and seconds after that, Valerie burn them to ashes with a blast. But no ghostly nerd on sight. She lifts her left hand and pushes a button nearby her hear, activating the E-ray vision (X-ray vision that aloud to see ectoplasm traces). Nothing, her scanner tells her the ghost is still nearby, even very close but she doesn't see him anywhere! What kind of trick is that?
Tucker had run just under the Red Huntress jet board, praying she'll quite soon and fly away. Then he'll focus back on hiding in the bush until he changes back to a human. And once all this is done he will call Danny help with the Technus business.
Speaking of the Devil, Tucker spot in the city view a huge giant robot with multiple tentacles harms, a few howling car alarms and loud crashes sound. 'Ho no! I really piss him off this time' The geek though.
Valerie also heard and saw the sudden appearance of the giant robot, speaking aloud to herself: "Haaaa! He didn't had enough already?! Forget about that new ghost in jumpsuit, this tech wizard is way more dangerous right now!" and so she rocketed at giant tech masse.
Tucker was left behind and sight in relief, but then he spot weird things flying from Technus monstrosity, it look like lasers harpoons spears link with an endless electric cables. Since the Red Huntress dodges them all, they all fall strait to Tucker. One actually pierce right through his belly, thought it didn't harm him, to his big surprise. Instead he soon turn, against his will of course, into yellow and red pixels masse and been absorbed by the harpoons cable. All this had lead Tucker inside the tech monster, alone with Technus.
"I really hate you life!"
Technus insane cackling echoes endlessly in the cyber world of the ghost's giant masse of multiple engines, from cars in the street to little bed lights in people houses. Tucker had been suck into this by accident, probably due to his ghost powers, which mean it's awesome because he have the ability to fulfill his wildest geek dreams. Well once he get out of the tech wizard clutch and get a proper grip on his powers.
The half ghost geek start to look his surrounding, happen there's a lot of geometric structure with lines of colorful energies pulsing all over them, a very Tron like universe. In the middle of all this, there's a pit. Coming out of it a giant spinning green and yellow whirligig, once dominating all the spin slow down revealing Technus face in a definitive Tron universe plagiarism.
"HAHA! So there you are future lackey.2!" Beamed the freaky whirligig face.
".2! Why am I put to second position?!" the offended Tucker ask him.
"Because, the girl had been manipulated by me before and not you! Simple as that!" Technus answer him coolly. He then continues on: "Anyway, you are definitively meant to work with me if you managed to come here by accident!"
"And if it wasn't an accident?" The geek weakly counter back. The whirligig smirk: "That miserable bluff is a clear proof that you are a freaking newbie in ghost powers! HAHAHAHA!"
"….. that doesn't make sense at all!" Tucker exclaimed
"Well at least I now know what you are!" a distant female voice said. The geek turns around to look and discover a giant screen showing Valerie battling the tentacle robot arm in the sky. Tucker screams in surprise: "Valerie!"
"How you know my name is still a mystery to solve, though! Once I finish with Technitwhit I'll go back on you… What is your name anyway?"
"Huuu….. Pixel ….. Specter?" he half asks himself about his ghostly name.
Technus stare at him with pity: "Is it an answer or questions? Come on! The ghost brat made his name in seconds!"
The Red Huntress ignores the weird whirligig rant and reply back: "Well Specter… prepares to be scratches!" The huntress shoots with all her weapons at the head of the giant robot. But to her horror the blast had been absorb and shoot back at her!
The counter attack make her fall from her glider only to caught by one of the tentacles, and before she even had time to refocus back, another tentacle put one of the brain washing helmets Technus had show them a while before.
"Ho no! Valerie!" Tucker screams in anguish.
"HAHAHAHAHA!" The whirligig Technus swirled around laughing then mused: "Now as long as the helmet stays on her head she'll be under my total control! And I might try some experiment of biocybernetism on her while I had her."
Specter turns his head to the mad tech ghost: "What! Have you any ethics about lackey or what?!"
"No, not really. But be assure you are less expendable than her!" the whirligig reassure with malice.
Anger almost clouded the ghostly geek, taking form into the yellow and red pixels. With this built up pixels energy he shoots strait at the giant electric yellow/green whirligig. "AAAAAAAAAAAOUCH! That hurt bad!" Technus screams back. He then bark: "Lackey.1! Blast this insolent for this!"
"Yes ho overhype, glorious and advanced master!" respond mechanically Valerie in the real world. She then aims her gun right at the screen where she saws her target, but instead of doing any damage on him she explode the giant screen on the monstrous robotic mass. And since her master hadn't congratulated her, she continues on, thus attacking the giant robot and technically Technus.
In Technus cyber world, platforms where getting glitchy and hazardous with each attack from the subdue huntress, Tucker could barely hold himself from rolling on the floor laughing like a hyena: "HAHAHA! You didn't instruct her well! And now you can't order her to stop! And making brain washed people giving you endless praised title is low for you!"
"My glitches from my first version are haunting me back!" Technus panics.
"Haunting you back?! How Ironic for ghost! You must admit it, right!" Tucker was really enjoying the turn of events, and he still is a little angry at Technus for brainwashing the huntress with no remorse.
"Laugh while you can, Brat! But don't forget this is my domain! I have full powers over you!" The mad whirligig began spinning until the face was a blur. Thick walls raised around it, protecting him. Technus gloat, still in his angry tantrum: "NOW FACE MY ALMIGHTY POWERS OVER THE CYBERNETISM!"
The shield of walls began to spin and the walls starts shooting lasers beams. Specter tried as the best as he can to dodge those beams, but let's be honest he was almost always hit squarely. Still he wasn't aware he was hit and even feels even more energized.
Technus didn't understand, the brat should be burn and shocked by now! No ghost could stand his power level that long, its thunders and electricity; he should at least feel a nasty shock….. UNLESS HE ABSORB ELECTRICITY!
When Technus had stop his attacks and peek through his shield, he saw that Specter had turn into a mass of yellow and red pixels. 'Hoho!' the tech ghost though. Then the pixels mass explode engulfing and transforming the whole cyber world and even transform the giant mass of engines into….. A pixel made spooky tower directly taken from Dungeons & dragons.
Technus and Specter where at the top of the tower, both looking normal. Thunder was striking Valerie in the air while she tries to reach them. What make it real hard is that, the pixels thunder came from a sunny day, making it harder to see through its flashes.
While the brainwashed Valerie was put back by the environment, Technus scream in anguish at what had become of his cyber world.
"WHAT HAD YOU DONE?! ARE WE BACK INTO A VIDEO GAME?!"
Specter looks around just as shocked as the electric ghost: "I guess it is a video game I did long ago…. What?! Wait a minute… You said that it's me who done this?!"
"Well duh! I'm not into gothic castle, and the yellow and red pixels that had done this are from you" Technus accused him with his finger. But he didn't let time to the nerd to swallow the big news: "And thanks to you, I've lost the last helmet I had stolen from Nocturne! At least I got the consolation prize with the Red Huntress, I'll just kick you bad enough until I grab a new brainwashing helmet!"
Just on cue Valerie had joined them, and starts shooting at the teenage halfa. This time the Pixel Specter was hurt, even thought not too bad. But the pain was just starting and Tucker couldn't do a thing to stand against her. Valerie had been part of the A-Students/bully group before, and he's having a vivid proof of it. The huntress was restlessly shooting with her cubic lasers guns to the point where Tucker was push through the floor!
"Hahahahahahahaha! You'll need a miracle to stop a veteran like her! But I'm sure it's not even a month you gain your powers, right? HAHAHAHA!" Technus was getting hysteric at the display of control he had over the huntress and her wonderful firepower. But then Tucker grabs one of the shield decorations on the wall and protects himself with it, Valerie then shoot at full firepowers making the shield fly and bounce back from the ceiling chandelier.
The chandelier crashes down on an unaware Technus and the shield bangs with Valerie's brain washing helmet. The huntress fall on the floor unconscious, Technus then scream with all his frustration: "HAAAARG! DO I HAVE TO DO ALL MYSELF?! SHE'S TOTALLY USELESS! NO, WORST! SHE MESSES UP BADLY ENOUGH TO GIVE YOU THE UPPER HAND!"
Then with loud effort, the tech ghost breaks the chandelier with sheer demonstration of strength. He didn't stop there, with the chandelier remain and his electric powers he form a thermos made of cupper and steel, thought, since the basic materials are pixels, the new thermos was too!
"Prepare to meet your new master, alias ME, boy!" The teenager geek dodges two blue vacuum ray from the thermos, he tried to shoot back but he seems out of power energy, the whole dungeon probably need all his energy to be maintained. So he run under covers and dodge again every blue ray from the cupper thermos. Technus was getting real impatient, but then he saw Valerie raise up, rubbing her head. "Lackey.1! Grab him so I could trap him in this thermos! Hurry up, you useless scum!"
Technus never notice that his brain washing helmet had cracked in two piece and fall of the huntress head, and add the irony, Valerie had heard the insulting command: "Who you call scum, ecto-scum bag!"
She points all her guns and lasers at the Tech ghost head, charging them to maximal power level of hurt while Technus stare at her in stun. Then she shoot, expulsing him out of the tower through a wall of pain literally. Technus had land nearby a firemen truck; they had been called for incoming destruction and possible fires due to a giant robot. Instead they are staring at a giant medieval dungeon, begin for no dragon to come.
Valerie fly through the hole she made by punishing Technus, ready to finish the ghost for good. The ghost had saw the incoming threat and once he notice to truck nearby him, he fused with it and add the rest with it to form some sort of Transformer of firemen trucks. He then scream:" Why don't you have a taste of your own medicine!" The giant robot shoots High pressured water to the Red huntress, but she dodges the attacks by flying around him.
This made rain water all around the area and the pixilated dungeon start to flicker, Pixel Specter had regain some breath but he quickly run for his life when he saw the whole dungeon start to turn back into red and yellow pixels. He jumps through the hole Valerie and Technus went and jump in the emptiness. Meanwhile Valerie had unbalanced the giant robot by making him swirl around with his water guns, and now he falls to crush to the sparkling dungeon.
What happen next would be record by the reporters as the biggest damage/accident cause by ghost after Undergrowth, then Vortex. The pixilated building explode into a pillar of thunders, annihilating the giant firemen truck robot, and leaving a giant fuming heap of techs that Technus had controlled at the beginning. Of course all remains are burned by the thunder. Valerie and Pixel were thrown far away by the explosion, leaving the firemen staring in disbelief at the mess they'll have to clean up.
Jumping out of the heap, a tiny tamagotchi (you know one of those little electronic Japanese games with a cute pixelized pet in) fall at the foot of the head firemen, screaming: "WHERE'S THE EXIT IN THIS PIONTLESS GAME? HOW DO WE TURN IT OF?!"
Valerie woke up in dark and cold spandex arms with moving pixels around the gloves, those arm were those of that new ghost! What was his name again?... ha yes! Specter! Pixel Specter!
She rises up and was about to blast him for taking advantages of her while unconscious…. But she soon saw he was knocked out, a trail an electric-yellow ectoplasm in his mouth corners, in the middle of a crater.
"YOU PROTECT ME?!" the huntress scream, her helmet had cracks and a few sparkles at random place of her body. She then turn around, confused. Like Phantom had done at occasion, this ghost had save her from the worst blow by shielding with himself! She was shaking at the idea of a new heroic ghost in town. Heck! If he team up with Danny, she'll be out smarted! No, never again she would be dumped behind like her hold/false friends did to her when her father lost his job. She'll give even more energy to her hunt; she might even try to team up with the Fentons at occasions! It's out of question that ghosts protect people from other ghosts! That would only make mankind weak in comparison!
She turn back to Specter, ready to catch him and keep him locked until she convince him to abandon all form of heroism when, he was gone!
Back to the ghost trio base, Danny Phantom phase through the ceiling with his best friend over his shoulder, once on ground he gently put him on a bedsit mean for occasions. Then Danny tries to talk to his friend: "Tucker! Man! Wake up!"
He grumble, put would stir, so Danny uses one of his friend jokes: "You've been out for four days!"
"WHAAAAT!" Tucker woke up one second.
"That's a payback for when I first went out exhausted!" Danny explained, all too happy. But then he change back human and gave his friend a bottle of water. "Here drink, you'll be better soon."
"Man Danny! What toke you so long to notice Technus giant robot or the Dungeon I create out of nowhere!" the geek moaned, then his gold ring appear and spread retransforming tucker back to a standard human nerd. "Why it's only happening now! It would have been way more useful back then when Valerie wasn't looking!"
"Dash happens to be nearby me when I saw the robot. He try to hide behind me and never let me run away in hideout to transform, too panicked to realized he was appearing weak in front everyone!" Danny explained, but soon asks: "You turn it into the dungeon? How so?"
"Beat me, dude! All I really understood is that I managed to save Valerie from a brain washing helmet and a slavery life under Technus!" the geek explained. He then adds: "and that I can absorb electricity! Maybe that's what triggers the transformation of the dungeon!"
"Maybe, rest now and try to recall all you had done over there. Maybe you'll be able to explain and take a control over this new power!" the teenage friend proposed.
The geek node and soon ask: "and Valerie? Is she okay?"
Danny smile fondly at him: "Confused and her armor had some damaged, but you totally save her months in a hospital when you shield her! Awesome work dude, you're already acting like a hero!"
Tucker giggle weakly: "hehe. Now that's great! I finally had a girl in my arms by the same occasion! Sweet, sweat hero business!"
"You are aware that she was ready to blast you if you hadn't been knock out, right?!" Danny remarks then shake his head: "You would never change!"
Both boys laugh together in their secret base.
Author note's: And we end here!
As you can see, Tucker had just found his new regular enemy, save his first Damsel in distress and discover his first special moves, however it was accidental and he still had no control over his powers. plus he don't have that much power resources, he toke from Technus's attacks to be able to do anything.
So even if Tucker had an awesome power it'll take a gooooood while to master it^^
Hope you like it!