AN: Hello! this is mamahersh returning yet again to finish what she started. ^_^ Now, here's the thing. These three chapters is all I had planned to really write, but I might be persuaded to write more if you send me a review. That, or if you have any comments or questions about the chapter and/or the work as a whole, I would love to hear from you. :D Anyways, I think that's enough for now: Rating for the chapter M, for gore and vivisections.

I do not own Danny Phantom: Butch Hartman does that.


Suzy noticed a commotion on the opposite side of the room where the lab table had been set up. She looked over curiously, noting that Anna was looking as well, before gasping in shock as she saw what was on the table now.

There on the table was a young man, looking much younger than herself yet almost ageless. She almost immediately noticed the shining white of the roots of his hair that then seamlessly bled into coal back on the tips; which contrasted nicely with its ashen features. Looking lower, she saw the slight musculature of his chest and torso, though nearly grimaced at the spikes through its shoulders; before realizing that it WAS a ghost that she was looking at. But this ghost seemed too… ALIVE to be a ghost. There was even a slight reddish blush to its cheeks and…. IS THAT RED BLOOD?! Straining her eyes, she looked at the spikes protruding from its shoulders, and Lord Almighty, there was red blood pooling out of those wounds.

She took a step back, a sickening feeling coming from her stomach, and looked over to see Anna with a confused look on her face. Leaning over, Anna asked the terrified looking Suzy if she was seeing the same thing she was. Suzy took a shuddering gasp as several emotions flew through her, before leaning over to Anna and saying, "A-Anna…. There must be some mistake! Th-that's r-red BLOOD coming from those shoulder wounds!" Anna gave her an incredulous look, before squinting, and then a shocked expression crossed her face. Then Anna frowned, and she steeled her shoulders, a look of murder now present.

"Suzy, that's a ghost, it's just faking to try and gain your sympathy. Don't you DARE back out now." Anna mumbled back, still glaring at the unconscious body at the opposite end of the room.

Suzy nodded, though the sickening gut twisting LURCH she had felt when seeing the blood was still present; and seeming to not be going away anytime soon.

At that moment, the door at the other end of the lab opened to show the famous Fentons; the trio garbed in their famous Haz-mat suits, before Rosaline split from the group to go to her observation room above the lab. Meanwhile, the Fentons walked over the table, and looking the ghost over, nodded their approval before waving the interns over.

Seeing the Fentons' cue, the interns wandered over, and gathered around the metal table where the ghost had been nailed to to watch the proceedings. With everyone gathered, the Maddie Fenton, if Suzy was remembering her name correctly, started by saying that this was a particularly offensive piece of work.

"Remember, this is JUST a ghost. True, it's a rather unique ghost, in that it can imitate a human perfectly, but that makes an even greater offense to all that is natural. It is a freak among freaks, and even if it stays in its human form the entire dissection, just remember that it's LYING to you. Any chance it gets, it will try and reason with you; trying to make you let it in so it can escape. DON'T let it do that.

"So with that out of the way, let's get started. First we must choose our instruments for the dissection…" continued Maddie, a tone of business and the epitome of professionalism, even in the setting she was currently in. Though, Suzy noticed as Maddie continued, that Maddie seemed tired, worn out, and Suzy guessed it was because this would probably be the adult Fenton's last dissection before retiring. After all, they were both in their late 70's at the very least, possibly even early 80's. They had done the best in their field, but their time to settle down and get ready for the end was coming soon, and Suzy was sad to see them go. But for now, she had the pleasure to watch them in their prime, and so far, it was a sight to behold.

But the lecturing was not to last, as quiet groan was heard from the table, and the oddly colored eyes of the specimen opened to look around its surroundings. They lingered briefly on each of them, before staring, terrified at the hovering bodies of the Fentons. After a few words passed back and forth, Jack quickly punished the thing for its insubordination. It was the longest minute of Suzy's life.

Suzy had grown up what most would call a sheltered life, till her encounter with a ghost, that is. But even still, she had never seen a being of any sort electrocuted before with any amount of voltage. But seeing it now for the first time being done to a being, who for all intents and purposes had just been minding its own business, and more than likely just wanted out, and which had done no personal harm to her; she was appalled at the amount of force being used. She cringed as it spasmed on the table, its screams echoing in her head. Suzy tried her best to continue to mentally distance herself from the scene, calling the thing on the table an it (Lies, that's a he and you know it, you traitor go help him he needs your help) and telling herself that it wasn't actually in pain, it was just a ruse (You can't fake that much pain unless you're an actor, and this isn't an actor ghost, NOPE). But still, the voice in your head just won't shut up (I'm your conscience you dolt). Then the electricity cut, and a muzzle was applied.

'Odd,' she thought to herself, 'I wonder when they'll knock it out so it won't struggle during the procedure?' The answer came swiftly, as Maddie leaned over the squirming body on the table, and cut into it with precise lines like they had discussed in class. Suzy blanched just as the thing on the table did, and had to take a shaky breath to try and calm her stomach as red blood flecked with alien specks of green began oozing onto the table beneath the ghost. She was broken from her stupor as Maddie called Anna forward to hold open the flaps of skin and muscle and fat; and watched in thinly veiled horror as Anna did it with a smile, asking if there was anything else she could do to help. By this time, Suzy was getting to the point that she needed conclusive evidence that this wasn't a human being they were cutting open on the table in front of them.

Then Maddie showed them the core, and all of Suzy's fears melted away with the conclusion that this was just a thing, as she saw the glowing, alien thing throbbing in the chest of the ghost that only looked human. She noted distantly that it was still squirming, and frowned in annoyance, knowing it was just making it harder for Maddie to conduct the experiment. Finally able to take notes, Suzy scribbled down some things that Maddie said, distantly noticing that her hands were shaking and her vision didn't seem to be doing the best. But she ignored it, and continued watching the dissection, till the thing was sewed up, and was escorted out with the rest of the interns that were left.

She vaguely noticed that Anna seemed to be trying to talk to her, babbling excitedly about something, but her words sounded like bubbles underwater; popping and fizzing in her ears as she ponderously walked back to their dorm. Then a swathe of brighter white than the rest ot the background white approached her, and she looked up vacantly, her expression empty.

The agent in front of Suzy let a small hint of concern cross his face, before sighing quietly and then gently herded the poor girl to the infirmary.

The rest, as some would say, is history.


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