"Great. Well, Jack Fenton can get past any ghost. But...Danny?" Jack started, turning to Danny.
"Mm?" He responded, taking in his surroundings.
"How did you two know each other?" Jack asked, crossing his arms. Danny winced and turned his head to his father, rubbing the back of his neck nervously.
"He attacked me at that family reunion. Trapped me down in Vlad's basement." Danny said uneasily. Jack's eyes widened.
"YOU WERE ATTACKED BY A GHOST AND DIDN'T TELL ME?" Jack shouted angrily. Danny winced, and Jack took in a deep breath, and released.
"Alright, well...We can talk about it later. Right now we need to get going- Wait, what's in your hand?" Jack asked, advancing toward Danny. Danny's eyes widened and look into his left hand, the object he was so used to he hardly noticed it lying there, right in his palm.
"The...Fenton...Thermos..." Danny said slowly. Both father and son turned slowly to each other, opening eyes wide, and then smiling.
"This will make it quite easier." Danny said with a smirk. Jack nodded.
"Well, we ought to start moving. Sitting here will take us nowhere." Jack said firmly. Danny nodded, and both looked up the path they were going to start, which turned out of view, and began walking.
Danny and his dad walked for about thirty minutes silently, to save energy.
Being that Danny had super hearing technically due to his ghost powers, he could hear very quiet noises in silence...And he began to hear a non-stop beeping. It started out almost impossible to hear, but as they continued, Danny nervously looking around, it became more pronounced and louder. Soon, the beeping became loud- not loud enough for Jack to hear, but Danny frowned, and stuck an arm in front of his father, who stopped and looked at Danny, confused.
"Danny, wha-" Jack was cut off.
"Dad, back up a bit. I hear something." Danny said. Jack obliged, but eying Danny oddly. Jack had always had good hearing, but he couldn't hear a thing.
Taking in a breath, Danny pulled off a long, thorny and leafy branch from the maze's hedges on his right, and aiming carefully, he threw it and began to run back to his dad, before a deafening 'BOOM' came from a mine being blown up, Jack and Danny being pushed back a few feet, making Jack land on his back, Danny awkwardly on his stomach. Both quickly got up, and turned to see the damage.
A large smoking crater where the branch Danny had thrown was all that was left of part of the ground. The hedges on the sides looked unharmed, due to Danny's guess, that it was some sort of ghost plant that couldn't be singed. Jack turned and stared at Danny in shock.
"How did you HEAR that...? It would take super-hearing to be able to detect that..." Jack said, a little shocked. Danny winced and looked up at Jack.
"Uhh...I dunno." Danny said, playing stupid. Jack raised an eyebrow, and nodded, but secretly not buying it. But, deciding he'd talk to Danny later about it, they continued, carefully crossing over the large crater, and on.
Another half hour passed. Nothing had happened, thankfully, for our heroes. Danny kept his wary eyes and ears wide open, though. Stepping over the grass floor under them, Danny was left to his own thoughts.
"I wonder...How...Should I tell Dad so we can escape quicker...Will he even accept me?" Danny silently questioned, keeping his eyes at his feet. Jack was thinking, too.
"What would that ghost want with Danny at the college reunion? Danny back there also displayed immense hearing...I wonder...Doesn't he disappear often? Skips class? Didn't he have that accident in the lab? I wonder if he could've...No, Jack. Your imagination is simply running away with you. But I still wonder..." Jack mused mentally, giving a look at his son, who was looking at his feet. Then Jack wondered something and turned back to Danny.
"Danny, whatever happened to your first jumpsuit I gave you? I had to make you that new one." Jack said, pointing it out. Danny flinched for a minute, which Jack noted, but decided to keep to himself for the moment.
"Uh, guess it just...Disappeared. You know how stuff can do that." Danny said. Jack nodded, but then both Father and Son stopped as they heard a hissing noise. Danny narrowed his eyes and was about to step forward, but Jack put a large hand in front of him quickly, and tip toed slowly forward, Danny following when he'd rather be leading.
The hissing sound became more pronounced as they continued forward, and stopped when they heard it approaching. Motioning for Danny to stay back, Jack took the thermos from him and prepared himself.
A snake head turned the corner and nearly bit Jack, who jumped back, almost knocking over Danny, Then, a woman with hair that were snakes and a lower half that was a snake tail, Jack and Danny instantly both knew what it was. Covering their eyes with their arm in Jack's case, eyelids in Danny's before they saw her eyes directly, Jack opened the thermos without looking, and pushed a button to capture. Both heard a 'noooooo' come, and the whirring of the thermos stopped to tell the ghost had been captured. Capping it, Jack frowned and stiffly turned to Danny. He narrowed his eyes in determination.
"Danny, this ghost means business. He's probably going to send deadly ghosts after us one-by-one until he runs out of minions, so you and I need to be at the top of our game, prepared, and brave. Both of us will escape alive, I know that. We just need to work together." Jack said firmly but softly. Danny nodded, and frowned.
"Well, we both should look out for each other. I mean, we both almost got turned to stone by Medusa." Danny said with a shudder. Jack nodded, and put an arm around Danny to keep him close as they continued walking on.
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