hello my youthful fans!! It is I! Hypn0s! Bringging to you all yet another dose of what is this story, rayearth knights: Danny the tsunami, now before naything i want to thank those who had review my last chapter, and although i know i could get more reviews i am happy with what has come, and regarding the poll about the queen is going so far so good, and i'm fact i'm planning on adding a second poll, that one would be to decide who would get the role of of the rayearth of fire, but i'mseriously giving it a thought about it, so i will pose the poll, and you people as the readers can give me options of who can become rayearth of fire, cartoon characters or anime characters, with the expection of Naruto or Danny hantom characters since they are already on the fic as rayearths, i will wait the options of you all.
and as for the OC Dove, many think she is a 'Mary-sue' well she is not, i realized that as the story goes danny will need someone besides Sam, tucker and his family, and conisdering that Clockwork never reseted time like in TUE it is possible that danny and company end up meeting someone else, so based on that i added Dove to the fic, so don't consider her like someone who will kick asses, she is human and is prone to flaws, besides the star of the fic is danny.
with that said i leave you with chapter 3 of my fic, enjoy and review!!!
CHAPTER 3: A BRUSH WITH DISASTER
He wouldn't openly admit it at first, because in the way she integrated to their group at first, but Dove was a capable ghost hunter believe it or not and a good friend, true the way she used his secret to enter their social club was something low and dirty, but that had been the way his grandfather had taught her to acquire what she wanted and maneuver herself in the high echelons of the political life and keep at bay the vultures and sharks lurking the halls and ready to prey on the weak an unprepared.
On the long run (which means two days since she entered their group) she became the 'fourth' musketeer on their troop, she was way athletic and fast, even more than Sam or Valerie, she was not as smart as Tucker when it came to technological gadgets but she was as good as him in piloting vehicles and handling small weaponry, specially the Thermos, and believe it or not, she and Sam started a good friendship, considering they met due to one using Danny's secret to entering and the other being overprotective, but Sam pushed that aside when Dove proved that her intentions where not to hurt Danny at all, but to fit in, being the president's daughter had its disadvantages, she barely had friends of her age because the secret service is far too scary and protective to her, and those who claimed to be her friends were because of her position as the daughter of the most powerful woman on the world, she had already been in five schools in the lapse of six months, and all she had left of those schools were bitter memories, and paparazzi, many paparazzi.
Amity Park was the perfect spot for her to live, first the criminality was a high low, considering that the criminals were superstitious and feared ghosts help a lot, second paparazzi feared ghosts, enough said that only having a picture of Amity Park in the air was enough to them, spoke monuments of how much the international media fanfare feared the city paranormal activity, furthermore Dove's secret service agents that escort her were only for school, since it was a far more vulnerable sector than the streets which lacked criminal activity, and to add her aunt lived in Amity Park, one Doctor Catalina Lockheart, an authority on the fields of energy.
According to Danny, who was pretty much a paradox of the value of Ecto-energy as both functional energy source and weapon, Doctor Catalina is the mind behind many progresses in energy fields, the generator that once fed the ghost portal before activation is one of her many advancements in the field of energy, still fossil energy was used, but less considering the advancements of Fusion energy to be used as alternative energy source, to prevent a war of resources that could happen if the fossil resources were abused and all but drained.
Also it seemed that Catalina had a history with his mom…a very violent one that started with the viability of ecto-energy as source of energy, cheaper than fusion energy.
Also Dove had something Sam, Tucker Danny didn't have.
"Oh yeah I'm gonna kick your ass Fentom!!"
"Bring it on, and stop using the damn orbital strike!!"
A massive LCD TV set with surround sound and third generation game console with the meanest and awesome game ever made since Doomed, Ring, a first shooter game where the player took the control of the mistress Chief, a female super soldier that was the last hope against the Pact, a massive union of alien races hell bend on destroying mankind.
And by the way Dove and Danny played; it was damn obvious she was kicking his ass.
"Again with the Orbital strike? I hate you woman!"
"Hey you glassed my butt last time mister I destroy you using a cruiser laser"
And she loves using big weapons to cause big booms on games…
BOOM!!!
"Hell yeah, roast in hell with my fusion bomb strike!!"
That's the reason they keep the big guns away of her.
As Danny and Dove rot their brains with senseless video game destruction extravaganza, and Tucker ogled at the serious computer she had, Sam began to look around her room, the room itself was as big as Danny's room, with the difference that instead of the almost Spartan look only a fourteen years old teenager male room can give, the walls were painted on a light blue navy color, her bed had a white cover on it, while the frame of the bed was wood unlike Danny's which was metal, the walls were decorated with many posters of all sorts, rock bands, game posters, some gnarly skater posters, on top of her bed lay what seemed to be ornamental katanas, while on her nightstand at the side of her bed lay a picture of her and her aunt, a woman with jet black hair and teal eyes who simply stole the picture with her ear-to-ear grin, and of course the massive LCD, sound equipment, video games console and the computer that had Tucker ogling at it for god knows how many hours.
But what caught the attention of Sam was the big bookstand where lay many books of all sorts, many of them were barely looking to be school oriented, in fact half of them Sam recognize them as books relating about paranormal activities, while the others were foreign, even to her.
"Hey Dove, what's with the big book collection?" Sam asked, "Oh that? Well you can say I'm not your average president's daughter" Dove began, earning a 'Duh' of Danny and Tucker, "Anyway I'm the youngest of three girls, my sisters are all pampered and popular, dressing always to the latest fashion trend, one of them is married, while the other is well, you can say loves to have a boy per night" Dove said, earning a look of the group.
"Me? I love books, especially those with paranormal themes, supernatural topics like new worlds, or universes, I don't dress to the latest fashion trend, in fact I try hard to insult the next fashion trend with my looks, and I love big booms, and vehicles" Dove said, suddenly tossing the wireless controller to Tucker, who caught it with some problems.
"You can say I'm a tomboy, the black sheep of the family, but I love who I am, mom and dad have no problems with me, while my sisters whenever they come they try to change me, Tsk, like if they had change, there is more changes to the sun suddenly imploding without any reason than me doing that" Dove said.
"In fact Dove, scientific studies indicate the sun will not implode, but rather expand when it spends its hydrogen fuel and starts burning helium inside it, transforming on a red giant, by that time no of us will be alive" Danny said in a all wise mode.
"Maybe, but considering the volatile nature of the universe itself you never know" Dove added, "Alright both of you enough" Sam said, stopping Danny before he started another of his 'space' rants, it was no secret to no one that he wanted to be an astronaut, that was the reason he knew so much about the mechanics of space, how it worked, anything, you ask him he knows it about space and anything around them, and sometimes it downright freaks her.
"Ok, so…any ideas what we will be doing tomorrow on AXION labs?" Danny asked, "Not much if you ask me, I rather blast aliens that go there, can you believe we won't have classes just for going two hours there, what's so important anyway?" Dove asked, earning a gasp of Tucker.
"You don't know guys, the new communication mainframe will be exposed, it had 64 random codes that made it impossible to hack, not only that, once completely active, the mainframe will act as a controller, enabling massive control of net connected devices easily, along with a faster internet connection and clearer cell phone calls, not only that, since is the first attempt of AXION labs to jump to the big leagues, they already have a satellite on the space that will act as the uplink between sky and earth and transmit the information easily to one place and to another, I tell ya this, that satellite and mainframe is quite a piece of technology, nearly all is cutting edge technology…with the exception of the energy sources of both satellite and mainframe" Tucker said.
"Why is that?" Dove asked, looking at the dark skinned teenager with a bored look, "Simple, the mainframe uses the normal energy grid like all here, but with an independent circuit current in case of a blackout, but is still dangerous, at the same time the satellite works with a battery that needs to be replaced each two years, so you can imagine how much each mission to replace the battery will cost" Tucker ended, finally stretching up.
"So…whose up for a Nasty Burger?" the murderous gaze of Sam and Danny, and the sickened look of Dove made him rethink his words, "Uh…how about a hot dog…or a pizza?"
He learned the hard way not to speak about Nasty Burger food in presence of his friends, not until they can overcome the fact the place nearly killed them and screw the future as they knew it.
Valerie looked at the remains of the Nasty Burger, as the place bad it was, it was the place she worked on, where her hopes of getting money for her college were set after losing all she was used to, the fancy and easy life her father had use her when he had a good job.
But looking at the charred remains of her former workplace, she couldn't help but to curse, with the place turned charcoal by Phantom, yet again attacking a place that was connected to her (even if it had to be done to stop his dark future persona) she couldn't help but to feel mad, angry, completely an utterly angry, and helpless, without her former job place, there was no way she could save money for her college, true there is too much time left before entering college, but every cent saved was a step closer to have a better life the one she had now.
Her suit was utterly destroyed as well; Phantom took the delicacy of turning her suit and weaponry in it into pieces of trash, nothing in her suit worked anymore, only the ecto-knife, and that was because the knife, along with the hand that wield it had been separated of the suit before the utter demolish of her suit, and part of the classroom.
Not only that, with her jobs away of her, so was the reward on Phantom's head, the numbers nearly cause her a stroke, maybe because she had never seen so many zeroes after a 1 in her life, and that reward would get her and her father out of the hole Phantom throw them, but without equipment that was near to impossible now.
"Sad isn't it" Valerie eyes widened, the voice so familiar and friendly, the answers to her problems it seemed, "Mr. Masters!" Valerie exclaimed in surprise as she saw her benefactor standing behind her, looking at the remains of The Nasty Burger.
"When you came to Amity Park?" she asked, "My dear I always come to Amity, is just that my fame has teach me to be cautious when going out or the paparazzi will crow around me like vultures, in Amity the problem is solved thanks to the ghosts, a good thing about this town is any famous star can waltz's in and not to worry about the media fanfare" Vlad said, now standing at Valerie's side.
"…You offered the reward on Phantom right?" Vlad rose an eyebrow at that, "May I wonder why dear?"
"Who else but you would do it, I mean the government would never give such a big number for a single ghost, besides you kinda own half of the world" Valerie stated with a smile, "You are a perceptive girl Valerie dear, yes I am the benefactor of such endeavor, and before you ask I don't want Phantom dead, I want him captured alive" that caught Valerie's attention, alive? The thing was more dangerous than anything she had seen; capturing it alive was hard, it was already dead to start with.
"He can prove beneficial to the world Valerie, imagine him, he is by far the most human looking ghost of them all, with the exception of his eyes and hair he could be confused by a normal boy, which leads me to believe he could be a link to reach advancements on humanity benefit, and the Ecto-energy, oh Valerie no one but me and the Fentoms truly see the benefit of ecto-energy as a source of pure and cheap energy for the world, Phantom could be that link, even the link to save lives, to preserve the bodies in the quest of a cure, buying precious time to that person, imagine the wonders and good things that he could provide" Vlad said, looking dreamily at the sky, something Valerie caught herself doing so too.
"But the hunters have misread my intentions; they think I want Phantom dead, thus killing any change of progress of mankind, it would be a shame really" Vlad said in a dejected tone of voice, making Valerie sigh.
"I would gladly help you capture him, but the problem is a rouge ghost possessed my suit, and Phantom got the change of getting even on the many changes I got to fire him by blowing my suit away, and here I imagined that thing would held on longer" she said.
"So do I, I was monitoring the suit, I was surprised when an ecto-being possessed it, thus indicating the suit was obsolete, Phantom did you a favor, because the suit in the end could have kill you, obsolete models are bound to be tossed to the junkyard, to no longer endanger their users and pave the way for new, dynamic and powerful models to come and occupy their places" Vlad said, suddenly pulling a slim metal case out of his pocket, and presenting it to Valerie, who looked at the case where a pair of expensive pencils or a very expensive watch could be placed.
Taking the case, Valerie opened it, exposing what seemed a slim red and black watch, "That my dear is top of the line ghost hunting equipment, Nano-technology brought to its peak, ecto-fueled weaponry and armor, top of the line my dear, the ECHO Mk. II, or the Ecto Class Hunting Operative, the second generation of your former suit" in a blink, Vlad saw Valerie put the watch on her right wrist, looking at the slim and compact design of the watch, "Stylish, but how it works?" she asked.
"Simple, the red button on the bottom half of the watch reacts to your DNA and fingertip pressure, anyone else pressing it will only see a light activating, when you press it…well better watch and believe" with an eager look Valerie pressed the button, in an instant the watch began to flash, and Valerie felt a tingling sensation on her arm, which spread to her whole body, until a red flash with small bolts flashed on her whole body, and ended the transformation, showing her new and improved combat armor.
The armor was on pure black, with thunder like glowing stripes in red all over the 'metallic' fabric of the armor, the boots were heavy looking, almost looking like military issued, with glowing red soils in the boots, the suit was body hugging, so her frame was well seen like in the other, the gloves were not as heavy looking at the ones of her former model, but now had a touch wrist computer to track ghosts and monitor the damage on the suit, the backpack was less big than the one on her former suit, and was in black with vertical thunder like stripes in it, her helmet was weird, because the front of it resembled what seemed to be a demon head overlook with horns included, and a red visor to cover her face, she also noted that the visor had a HUD screen also, very useful because it had an integrated map and location of ecto-firms, so far she saw none.
"Nice suit Mr. Masters, but the weapons?" Valerie asked, "Oh I told you already is top of the line Nano-technology dear, so pretty much if you think it, it will come true, now think of something easy, a laser pistol" Valerie nodded, imagining the pistol on her hands, suddenly the pistol materialized on her hands, the same model she had on her former suit, but in black with red glowing energy oozing of the barrel of the gun, "Sweet" she said as she flicked the gun around.
"The ECHO enhances your strength, agility and resistance tenfold; while the other did it two fold, reflexes now of course are doubled, and your weaponry does double the damage that the original version, also I added something special, on your waist" Valerie then looked at her waist, and spotted what seemed to be a black tube in it, picking it up, Valerie pressed the red button on the tube, and much to her amazement a red blade of energy came out of the hollow end of the tube, flicking it around several times, Valerie suddenly flick it on one of the damaged rocks near her, cutting the stone cleanly and leaving a red spot where the blade touched it.
"Is a plasma blade, my answer to Phantom's weapon" Valerie nodded, knowing full well that the 'lightsaber' staff Danny had was a dangerous weapon, to anyone.
"Now listen to me Valerie, your friend Daniel is allied with Phantom"
"WHAT?" she asked in surprise, "I was surprised as well, but it seems that Daniel has chosen to ally himself with Phantom in order to keep the ghosts at bay, providing Phantom with ghost hunting equipment he uses, the thermos, the vehicles, name it Daniel has given it to Phantom, including easy access to cast the ghosts he captures back to the ghost zone trough the portal of his family lab" Vlad said, "then I'll blow the portal"
"Not recommended, damaging the portal without the proper commands and measures to only destabilize the vortex that connects both human and ghost world would cause an explosion of massive proportions, the Nasty Burger explosion would look like a little firecracker compared to the explosion of the portal, a whole block consumed in flames" Vlad said, much to Valerie's horror.
"If you want to capture Phantom, you must cut his resources, make sure Daniel don't supply him any longer" Vlad said, there Valerie had a hard choice, Danny is her friend, true she kinda likes him, but the fact was that he was helping Phantom, and exposing himself to dangers, and as a good friend, well not that good but a friend in the end, she knew what he had to do…
"I will Mr. Masters, but I will do it for Danny's safety" with that Valerie suddenly made a leap, out of her soils a black Jet-sled materialized out of thin air, and with that she flew away, leaving a smirking Vlad behind her.
"That's right my little pawn, move on my accord and no one else's"
The next day…
AXION labs, the haven of technology on Amity Park, AXION labs has the top of the line technology regarding on advancements regarding computers, AI's, energy, chemicals, name it and has actually a college career in it, they have it.
Danny's class was currently looking at the massive looking mainframe in the middle of a special room, several people working on several consoles around the mainframe.
"Odd, isn't suppose computers to be slim and small, not monumental and huge?" Dove asked to Sam, "Mainframes are suppose to be big, and handle by several people, due to its massive processing and storing capacity it needs many people to handle it, is not someone can do alone" Tucker muttered, staring at the very thing that would raise Amity Park and surround area communication and net speed tenfold with dreamy eyes, the fact the mainframe would be unable to be hacked by no one, human or ghost, and daily updated with the best firewalls and antivirus upgrades, no virus seemed able to damage the thing, as long the satellite had energy to transmit back, all would be alright.
Of course the newly formed foursome never noticed the stare of Valerie over Danny, how he interacted with his friends, she wished she could form part of that group, in the way Dove now formed part of…
"Danny supplies Phantom with ghost hunting equipment"
But as long Danny was allied with Phantom that would never happen, she had to take him out of that life, even if she had to hurt him to do so.
She never noticed the green mist that floated out of her new watch, towards the mainframe computer, not even she noted the look of concern of Danny once his ghost sense got active, but shrug it as nothing, and focused on the task at hand, getting high grades, there was an A waiting for him if he redacted an essay about what they learned on their visit to AXION labs.
Three hours later…
"Boring I say" Dove stated with an irritated look on her face, "I would have spend my day better if I stayed on my home reading a book and blasting aliens away…dammit two hours of my life wasted" she exclaimed with an angry look, "You think you have it bad, I would have remained on my favorite library reading some dark poems, rather than hearing how a byte becomes a megabyte and vice-versa" Sam exclaimed.
"I had a good time" Tucker said with a smile, "That's because your momma fed you something bad while you were a baby, I can't imagine someone being as fanatic of technology as you" Dove added, "She has a point" Danny put his two cents, "You're just butting in because you have to make that essay" Tucker said with a mirth on his voice.
"I rather face Pariah Dark alone, but there is no point arguing, I need the good notes Tucker, oh well, with Valerie alter-ego out of the picture and mom and dad patrolling, I might have a nice afternoon" Danny said with a smile.
"Yeah…while I kick Tucker's ass on Ring" Dove added, making Tucker smirk, "Don't even start Tucker, remember the Doomed incident with Sam" Danny snapped, making Tucker skull, he had long learned (the hard way) that you should never underestimate a determined woman, and more one with so much free time as Sam.
None of them noticed a red dot on the distance, behind them.
"Sure rub it in Danny, I must remind you she kick your ass as badly as mine"
The dot got bigger.
"Because I was with you…and now that I remember you owe me a pet!!"
The bigger dot suddenly dived to the ground.
"Oh your hamster Danny? Man Tucker seemed ready die when he found out about that"
YOU KNEW!!?"
The dot made a sudden break near the ground and then shot forward.
"Of course I knew, I blackmailed Tucker for it"
"And people ask me why I don't trust my pets to friends"
"Don't start a war you can't win Dove"
"Bring it on batsy"
Suddenly the dot took a human shape, and was near the group.
"Uh guys…"
"What Tucker?"
"…Is the sound of a jet-sled engine what I'm hearing?" Tucker asked, it didn't take a genius to figure out who had a jet-sled on Amity Park.
Turning around the group was a black and red blur pass them…
"HEY LET ME GO!!"
One that had Danny.
"DANNY!" Sam, Tucker and Dove screamed as they saw the humanoid black and red individual pass them, holding Danny by the neck of his shirt, dragging him away, "Guys, help me!!" they hear him scream as he was drag away by the mysterious hunter…
"Hey…isn't that hunter that Valerie chick?" Dove suddenly asked, being the fresher on the group, she thought on ways that obviously scare them, give her clues and she puzzles the pieces on less than a blink.
"…That…god forsaken…back-stabbing…AAAHHHHH!" Sam screamed, suppressing the urge to screams obscenities to Valerie, who flew away of them with Danny.
"Oh man…Danny's parents are going to flip" Tucker muttered worried, "Not if we save him" Dove said, "Damn well said, let's follow them" Sam added, "ON foot?" Tucker asked.
"DUH!!" both girls said, suddenly running and following the trail of the jet-sled, leaving a very piss Tucker, "Oh man…why all the girls Danny an I meet seem to be far more athletic than us?" he said, hearing no answer since the girls were far away of him.
"Hey!" he screamed as he ran behind the girls, "WAIT FOR ME!!" way far behind the girls.
Danny struggled against the iron like grip of Valerie, he knew it was her who was dragging him in the sky, on a improved version of her ghost hunting suit and Jet-sled, like a ragdoll and to god knows where, Valerie is not exactly the type of girl who plans before, she shoots first, shoots more and then ask questions later, but nothing like this, kidnapping him in the middle of the day with his friends around to top it all.
Danny had to find some way to get himself free of her grip, anyway that was until it dawn him an idea, so brilliant yet so crazy at the same time.
Gathering all his manly power and courage that has gathered after so many ghost fights, victories and pranks of Dash, Danny proceed to do the unthinkable…
SLAP!!
"WHY YOU BASTARD!!"
He gave Valerie grey, a firm slap on the butt (trust me you need to be brave to even think that)
His plan worked, Valerie was so shocked for his sudden act, that she let him go while cursing him, of course her eyes widened when she saw what she had done, and where she had let him fall.
Amity Park Docks, full of containers and empty warehouses, with a sudden burst of energy, Valerie dived to Danny, trying to save him of a possible deadly fall, of course she didn't knew who he really was.
While on free dive, Danny focused to tap on his future vision, with a blink, Danny smirked, seeing the future and possible actions, he chose the coolest and safer of them all.
Getting near to him, Valerie eyes widened when Danny suddenly extended his arms, slowing his speed fall, Valerie caught by surprise by his actions that she stopped, that was enough to start it all, Danny suddenly twisted and grabbed himself to the jet-sled back portion, making Valerie and the jet-sled start to spin and go on a free fall, while spinning Danny adjusted himself to jump when about to reach the warehouse roof, Danny jumped of the Jet-sled, leaving Valerie to crash down, and onto something that would soften her fall.
Danny, with a grunt grabbed himself of the ceiling, sliding slightly, until he reached the edge and dropped down, landing roughly on a container on other container, then he jumped to a nearby tube and slid down safely to the ground.
Upon landing, Danny let a sigh of relieve, if his mom, or Sam ever saw him doing that, they are ought to freak out, besides it was damn cool to try that, it was safe, and only relied on his future sighs and human agility, ghost hunting did do something favorable to his body, he became flexible.
On the warehouse, Valerie suddenly had the urge to first punch Danny, and then make-out with him, he was a freaking daredevil, and she likes daredevils, the fact she landed on a container full of feathers softened her fall, but it would take her a while before getting out of it…
Of course she remembered she still had her jet-sled.
Outside the warehouse, Danny pondered on his decisions, he was on the other edge of the city, with a ghost hunter that was aiming at him, on his human form, that was weird, but with Valerie he should have learned to expect a lot of her, including attacking people.
He couldn't transform on ghost form, not without triggering her alarms, and of course raising suspicious on him, Valerie is one of many people he rather not to say his ghost identity, not at all.
BOOM!
Danny's eyes widened when he heard the warehouse roof blow up in red beams, and the roar of Valerie's jet-sled engines, survival and fear instincts kicking in, Danny dived towards a near container, seeing in time how Valerie shot upwards, then dived, until she was inched to the ground, stopped and deactivated her jet-sled, landing softly on the ground, extending her hand, and much to Danny's amazement a black and red crossbow came to her hand.
"You got to be kidding me, Nano based technology? This is ridiculous!!"
"You fear her too much"
"You would too if you got shot by a bazooka"
Danny dashed around, looking on the corners and dodging when he saw Valerie's shadow around.
"Danny! Come out now!!" Valerie commanded her eyes darting around as her HUD tried to detect any ecto-alteration, to warn her if phantom ever glanced at the place she would know.
For his part Danny kept his distance and powers shut off, Valerie's old suit had a ghost tracking device too, surely her new one had one improved, he had to keep his ghosts powers to a minimum.
But of course nothing could track his Rayearth powers, with that in mind he brushed the crystal on his glove, Tidal Staff being summoned to his right hand, and not activating it yet, he needed the element of surprise…
"And maybe a distraction" He thought as he saw a discarded box near him, holding his left hand in front of the box, such box began to levitate, "Gotta love TK!" He thought with glee before sending the box away, hearing how the box crashed around, earning the attention of Valerie, who turned around and followed the crash, that was his quote to run further away of her.
Later he would hear Valerie roar in anger, not a good sign if you are the target of a girl with energy based weaponry and with armor, not good…the only good thing was that he wasn't her boyfriend and suddenly broke with her without reason, now that added to her little arsenal and short temper would be bad.
"I know you're hearing me!! I know you supply Phantom with weaponry!!" she screamed, making Danny blink, "I do what?"
"Odd…she thinks you provide yourself with weaponry"
"She doesn't know I am Phantom and thinks I am giving him weapons…the question is how she came to that conclusion?"
"I dare say Vlad"
"I do too, but I wonder why?"
"ANSWER ME!!" the sudden close scream of Valerie put Danny on his guard, with a panicked look; he made his way far of Valerie.
"I had no choice; he was a better chance than me and my family!" Danny shouted as he ran, better made her believe he is everywhere than to her to pinpoint where he is.
"NO choice? Danny he is the enemy!!"
"He is our best chance!" Danny kept saying while running, he had to escape, Vlad surely told her that he was helping her enemy, the very being who ruined her life, she must be feeling betrayed, hence her anger.
"He is a filthy ghost, come out now! You don't know how much you hurt me!!" she said, fighting back tears, the 'betrayal' of Danny was bad, when she thought she could have someone to love, or even had a solid friendship, it turns out he is supplying her enemy, she was hurt, she was piss, she wanted to get answers, straight answers, but the answers she was getting and was suppose to calm her only irked her further, and that was not good for Danny, who was running short on ideas, and hiding space.
"Listen…dammit I had to do it OK, none of us hand any way to fight ghosts on their ground, Phantom could he had the powers, but he was still a teen, he needed help, I gave it to him, is far better than letting loose triggers like you outside!" Danny snapped, partly it was true, Valerie barely thought her actions when hunting ghosts, and that nearly killed her when she fought Pariah Dark.
"LOOSE TRIGGERS! I HELP PEOPLE, I DON'T RUIN THEIR LIVES!!" she roared as she began to look around in anger, "Oh great, I angered her, real smooth Danny" He thought as he gripped Tidal staff and prepared himself to face a foe far worse than a ghost.
And angry, armed and very much motivated woman.
"Real smooth"
"WAIT!!" Tucker panted in pain, he was used to follow Sam and Danny, one flying and the other faster than him, but following two girls who seemed faster than before, and were angry, well more Sam than Dove, after all Dove is angry because a friend got kidnapped in front of her, and Sam is angry because Valerie kidnapped Danny, right in front of her.
The only real good thing of all that is that while running like crazy, the girls gave Tucker a nice glimpse of their underwear, not that he is willing to say it out loud, he is not suicidal after all, but it was something to keep in mind in the boring days.
"Look! The docks!" Dove said, suddenly speeding up toward the docks, and seeing the gate close, "Dammit…Sam!!" she called, turning around and placing her hands together so Sam could jump with added impulse an reach the other side without problems, something Sam did without thinking twice.
Upon landing on the other side, Sam opened the door so Dove and Tucker could enter, both did so, Tucker panting and sweating like crazy after Dove, "You gotta quit he junk food dude, yer fat!" Dove stated, only to earn a dirty glare of Tucker, "OK not my business if you end like a balloon with legs"
"Enough both of you! We have to find Danny" Sam commanded, looking around the many passages, warehouses and containers forming passages on the empty docks, "Weird…isn't docks usually…more lively?" Dove asked, "Yeah…what gives?" Tucker asked as well.
"Don't know, but is better for us, split up and search around, Valerie must be screaming about like crazy and Danny must be hiding" Sam said, "Hey there is water around, isn't Danny's element water?" Dove asked, just to be looked by Sam and Tucker.
"Danny can't risk blowing his cover, do you want Valerie to find out he is a Rayearth?" Sam wondered.
"Hey I'm just asking, no harm done" Dove said, suddenly going to the left, taking the quote, Tucker took the middle road, while Sam took the right road, with luck they would find Danny before Valerie forces him to use his Rayearth powers.
"I have this powers for a freaking week, is hard not to lose control of them rather using them on combat!" Danny thought as he stalked Valerie, it was weird yes, the hunted becoming the hunter, but he had to do so, Valerie was out of her head now, she had no idea she was messing with the wrong person, and even though Danny didn't want to hurt her, she was giving him more and more reasons to carry future Valerie's plan of kicking her past self ass down a pecks.
She was going rampant around, eyes darting everywhere, he knew if he wanted to get out of there, he ultimately had to fight Valerie, and that meant to break her, true he is aiming to high aspirations, she is black belt if he heard right, and as armed as she is Phantom had no chance against her.
But where Phantom fails, Fentom succeeds, and that was an advantage he had, the question was how Valerie would react when she sees him fighting her on.
"Not good, it seems all girls on my life are violent…all but Dove it seems"
"Hey bucket of bolts!" and speaking of the devil…
Danny peeked of his hiding place, seeing Dove of all people rushing at Valerie with a lead pipe on her hands, Valerie seemed not to react yet, or was shocked…
BAMM!!
But whatever shock Valerie had was suddenly diminished when Dove slammed the tube to her helmet, making her stagger a little, Dove tried to attack again, only to Valerie to slam her right elbow at Dove stomach, making her fly and slam towards a container with a groan, and landing on her butt.
"…My attractive" she moaned as she looked at Valerie who leveled the gun at her, "This is not your affair Lockheart, back off!"
"It is when my friend is on the line…by the way, heads up" Valerie looked up, just to feel cold on her stomach, and then she froze up.
Danny let a pained grunt for doing that to Valerie, using Tidal against her, it was obvious against humans the weapon was non-lethal, and had a side-effect Draconax just told him.
"The weapon freezes human on touch" it was an interesting skill at is best, the ability to stop a person dead on his or her tracks with a blow, yet he felt guilty because he had to do it against Valerie, but in the end she asked for it.
With a pained expression, Danny helped Dove stand up, then he picked up the crossbow from Valerie's hands, and walked away, he didn't knew how long the freeze effect would last, but he hoped that enough to find Sam and Tucker and get out of there.
Five minutes later…
Valerie blinked the coldness on her body being replaced by an angry look, she had been basically betrayed by Danny, his actions spoke harder than words, and that was enough to make her realize that she could only trust Vlad.
Not even caring to follow Danny and his friend, Valerie flew away to her home, tonight her father had invite her to pass the night on the AXION labs and spend some father-daughter time, she knew she needed it, but she knew her father would see things Danny's way, being a former soldier, the good of the majority outweighed the one of the minority, no matter how painfully true is.
If of any consolation served what Danny had done was giving her a reason to visit her mom, it was high time to them to talk.
"Amazing! Nano-based technology! Outstanding!" Maddie said as she looked from a microscope the crossbow Danny had took of Valerie frozen form, his dad scanning the arrows, if you can call an arrow of the size of a needle an arrow.
"I'll say dear, the weapon is silent at is best, not only that, the arrows have a special drug that put on an unconscious state anyone exposed to it" Jack said, scanning the needles, "I must say Danny that whoever is supplying Valerie must have heavy connections or cash, this is by far the most advanced piece of weaponry on the world, with the exception of those hidden on Area 61" Maddie said, obviously referring to the hidden warehouse of the government placed conveniently on Amity Park, codename Area 61, some say is a top secret base, others than just a glorified warehouse, but whatever the case no one has been able to uncover what it does, so Area 61 myth lives on without solving.
"Yeah, the question is who?" Jack asked, Maddie suddenly looked at Danny, who had left his friends on their home after the incident, there she recognized the look, she knew her son and his secrets, all of them, so she knew now who he suspected of who supplied Valerie with the weaponry.
"Vlad, that…but why?" She wondered, true she was still and always will be mad with Vlad for what he did, for what he planned, but his reasons to use Valerie were something she tried hard to comprehend, yet she found no answer.
He stole the Ecto-skeleton, he has the crown of fire and the skulk key, he is a halfa like her son, and he has money to burn and nearly half of the world on his hands, why he would want to use Valerie in the end?
Why she wanted her so badly, she knew she was of no ones possession, with the exception of Jack, whatever twisted game Vlad was playing, it was going to get them soon enough involved in it.
"MOM! DAD! DANNY!!" they hear Jazz scream, in panic the family rushed to the first floor to see why jazz would scream, upon arriving the living room, they saw her on the sofa, looking at the news, rather shocked.
"It has been confirmed that the substantial sum of 10.000.000 $ offered to the capture or destruction of Danny Phantom, former public enemy #1 on Amity Park was not offered by the government and the new administration, who claimed that hunting down the only line of defense against ghosts was and it is a bad idea"
The family seated on the sofa, looking at the news cast who was reporting the news from the capital of their country, Jazz however looked distraught at her best.
"Nevertheless hunters of all over the world have started a massive arming and recruitment, along with an exodus that is scheduled to start next month, the first bounty offered to the capture of the Ghost Boy was never claimed, and a number of five ghost hunting teams returned to their homes after what witnesses say was a one-sided battle against Phantom, this of course raised the controversy further"
Maddie and Jack gulped at that, they had been part of the group who tried to hunt Phantom down, now they regretted, because they almost shot their own son, and of course Maddie feels the worse because she sucked her son on a ghost vacuum cleaner, that and the number of times she had her ghostly son on her sights, not good for a mother curriculum, and moral.
"The UN has called a meeting because of recent events, the destruction of a block of Amity Park in which Phantom and what the witnesses described as his 'evil big brother' based the fact not all ghost were evil, which is contradicted by ghost authorities worldwide, even more, at two months from the annual ghost hunters convention, hosted this year on Amity Park, the main topic this year would be the Phantom phenomena…"
Maddie had enough of the news, turning off the TV, she focused on her son and daughter, specially her son, things were getting hectic to say the least, the government denied all kind of involvement with the sudden and wide bounty on his head, Amity Park was about to receive the best hunters of the world, all focused on hunting her son for the bounty, or glory, then it was the convention, Amity Park had always hosted the convention, since even before the active ghosts came to be along with Phantom, the city was already a paranormal focus center.
Things were getting out of hand, not to mention other things that were to happen, she knew something, anything could happen now, it was usual, all they heard, usually gets worse with another event…
"Finally!! I Technus, master and lord of technology have decoded this troublesome password!!" guess who said that.
He had used Vlad for his means as well; the suit true to his words is a master piece of human Nano-technology combined whit ghost engineering, better said his ghost engineering, there is a reason he is the master of technology and domains all electrical devices, no exceptions.
True there are limitations to what he can do, Cyberspace is an area he dares not enter until he has a solid way to get in or out, he rather domain the Cyberspace from outside than from the inside, hence his plan.
He knew beforehand of the satellite on orbit, and the mainframe on AXION labs, both boasting the ability to enhance communications and net speed, with his upgrades and plans, why to bother with Amity Park network, when he can rule the world.
With that in mind he had entered the mainframe using Valerie's watch as a 'Trojan horse' and after a day of intense concentration and work, he was able to crack each code on the mainframe, he had to give it to the human who designed the code, it was hard, but not impossible to crack, and now that he had control of the mainframe, it was time to take the skies and then the world.
The satellite dish on top of AXION labs roof began to move, aiming to the current in-orbit location of the satellite, and then a green beam of energy was shot, unknown to all, aimed to the satellite.
In space, the beam reached the eager satellite, which began to glow green, and then it happened.
On the void of space, without air or means to transport sound, the laughter of Technus was suddenly audible, and the fact no sound was audible in space, not without means to transport sound, made it worse and scarier to whoever was around, which turned to be a space shuttle crew near the satellite, fixing the space station near, who looked rather shocked, and freaked at the sudden laughter that echoed in space, from a green glowing satellite that suddenly had a face.
"Uh…control…" one of the crew members began floating inside the shuttle with a shocked and paled look on his face.
"We got a problem"
"I WILL RULE THE WORLD!"
"One big problem"
Night came to Amity Park, the sky was black and filled with stars, the moon shined proudly, there were no clouds in the sky, and no surface light interference to the night watchers to see the sky in its full and nightly glory…
If they weren't worried by the sudden global blackout that seemed to just came out of nowhere without reason at all.
The world was submitted into darkness, utter and complete darkness, nothing worked that worked with electricity and was plugged to the net, meaning like 90% of all things on the world, power plants worldwide were unable to start the plants anew, it was crazy, not even nuclear power plants worked, many important places like hospitals were submitted independent gas fueled min power plants to meet the demands, since they had people who relied on equipment and electricity to live, but still things looked gloomy.
All but in Fentomworks laboratory, this counted with the only ecto-fueled power plant in cases of emergency, like in that moment.
"Are you sure this is not some sort of sign of the Apocalypse?" Dove asked as she stared at Tucker seated on one of the few computers which worked fine, mainly because it was his to start with, "No Dove, in fact this has a scientifically explanation" Tucker said, "…And?" she asked again.
"Technus" Danny said, eyes narrowing, "Tech-who?"
"Master of technology, a ghost that uses technology as his weapon, trust me his rant is worse than his attacks" Sam said, looking how Danny's parents worked on something with the limited they had, true they had energy, something nothing in Amity Park, only the hospital had, but the ecto-energy had been provided by Danny, which proved two things, one ecto-energy was a viable source of energy that could be reproduced with the right means and also shot the theory of Dove's aunt about Ecto-energy being junk, and two it took some of Danny to feed the energy to sustain the lab and equipment, true the energy was clean and by the looks safer than having a fusion based power plant supplying energy, but until they had resolved the thing, and had funds to create the thing to create ecto-energy, Danny was the safest source of Ecto-energy, and since his ghost half is ecto-sustained, both parents feared what would happen if Danny got carried of himself and depleted his ecto-energy, something they were not taking the risk of finding out the hard way.
"But how he got to the satellite, better yet how the hell he got to AXION labs in the first place!!" Dove asked, "I ask the same myself…niece" the skin of Dove nearly turned ice, as Maddie nearly set herself ablaze in anger.
All turned to see the source of the voice, and only had one thing to say, the males of course, "AY CHIHUAHUA!"
The woman on the stairs was roughly thirty years old, jet black hair tied on a messy bun, Teal colored eyes and without make-up, dress on the typical scientist robe, the fact that made the boys nearly had a seizure, was the fact she had a black miniskirt that leave nothing to the imagination regarding her slender legs, and of course who can miss the light blue shirt that seems ready to lose its buttons because it held a pair of double D's, somewhere, in Tucker's mind, he hoped Dove turned like her aunt.
"Catalina" Maddie hissed, "Maddie, is good to see you, although I hoped it was on…less dark circumstances" Catalina Lockheart, authority on the fields of energy, and sister of the president said in a firm and detached way, "I see you have already found the reason we are in the dark, yet I wonder why you dare to take actions easily the government can take" Catalina asked in a annoyed sense.
"You think the government would take seriously our words after you tilde me and my husband of liars and crazy?" Maddie asked, finally standing up, and revealing to the kids the Fentom peeler armor…
With a huge rocket backpack attacked to it.
"That was before, and I dare to say I still believe ecto-energy is useless as source of energy, however" Catalina stated as she moved around, looking at the generator with a green glowing liquid battery in it, "desperate times call desperate measures…who is going to be the suicidal who is going to be going upwards?" Catalina asked, pulling a flash drive out of her coat pocket.
"That would be me" Danny said, earning a look of Catalina, "I won't ask why, or how you plan to survive enough in the vacuum of space to deal with the problem, but if the satellite is the problem, I got the solution to it, or at least part of it" she said as she closed to the computer Tucker was using, and put the flash drive, in a instant the computer monitor began to show several schematics in it, all of a satellite.
"The satellite is a piece of art itself, the problem was of course the battery, the cost of replacing one would be astronomical, something AXION labs couldn't allow, so in the next mission a new energy source would be placed" She began, taking the mouse and placing the cursor on a part of the satellite schematics.
"But until then that can be the best option to stop the satellite, destroying the battery can cause the satellite to pummel to earth, burning on the atmosphere, or by some twist ending drifting to space, but in the end is far better than having it posses by a ghost" She said.
"I thought you didn't believe in ghosts?" Maddie chuckled at Catalina, "I didn't" she began, until she chose something on her flash drive file, and click it, much to the lookers surprise, they all saw the satellite, with a green face in it, laughing in the void of space, "But I'm a scientist, and until not seeing, not believing, I saw, and now I believe" she said, seeing how Danny looked at the video on the computer with a narrowed gaze.
"Technus…" was all Danny said before turning to the armor, "Is it ready mom?"
"Yeah, but we don't know how you will make it back" she began, "Trust me mom I have a way, the question is when we start?" Danny said.
"You should have been there yesterday" Catalina suddenly said, walking away and taking the flash drive with her, "Your aunt is harsh" Tucker commented to Dove.
"Yeah…but she cooks a delicious omelet"
Damon saw his daughter pace around in anger, he knew why it was, he had seen her in her new combat armor, he had hear her literally rant hell and back about Phantom being supplied by Danny, and the 'lightsaber' thingy that looked like a magical thing rather than a technological wonder, to further it up she was struck by Danny, and he had taken one of her weapons, which of course was an insult, considering who taught her, her own mother.
It was true, since their separation, Valerie still considered Lydia as her mother, and not like a stranger, and he considered her still like a wife, the very woman he still loved, but how he was suppose to return to the woman after all the hurtful things they say to one another long ago, alcohol is bad, no doubt, and there the reason Valerie had no mother in the moment.
Still Lydia was a great martial artist, her family tree traced back to the orient culture, which comes to show why Valerie considered what Danny to her as an insult, Lydia had taught her that your weapons are part of you, they are you, and extension, no one else can't touch them, just you, and if they are taken away, you can consider yourself insulted and hurt because the weapon is part of you.
The fact a friend took it away made it worse to Valerie, who paced in the security room which was only illuminated by a candle.
"How the hell that ghost entered to the mainframe?" she wondered, being on the epicenter of the first problem, she was more updated that the whole world, "Don't know dear, but now the mainframe is the less of our concerns, before we lost all lights, we got a communication of the space shuttle on space, it seems out ghost is in space, on the satellite" he said, fearing his daughter might try to get to space and hunt the ghost.
"…I'm going" true to his fears he saw her activate her new suit, it was new and far more advanced than the one Phantom totaled, he was grateful with the ghost boy, he first revealed the reason why his daughter seemed mangle every day, and the second was when he totaled the suit, the fact he held every time before the destruction of the suit meant he didn't want to hurt Valerie, and that, to the former soldier was good enough to gain his trust…that and the fact he fought alone against a ghost that hurt his daughter, that also helps.
"Valerie Grey don't even think it!!" he snapped, stopping the huntress on her tracks, "Leave that to professionals already, stop doing things that in the end will endanger you and all with you!" he said, remembering the words of his squad leader when he was a young firebrand in the army.
"There is much at stake father, I am an expert" Valerie called, summoning her jet-sled, "I don't give a damn Valerie, this is a war, let the true warriors fight it" he snapped, "War? Real warriors? If you're referring to Phantom then forget it dad, I won't place the hope of mankind on the very being who let us on total misery!!" she snapped.
"Did he hurt you or me when that happened?" he asked, "He did…he made you lose your job, I lost it all, because of him, and you want me to let him save the world, for all I know he is allied with the ghost on space!!"
"Snap out of it! Money come and go, clothes and houses can be replaced, but lives not, remember that, he could have easily destroyed you before, but he didn't he held on knowing that hurting you would not benefit him, he knew that you had better things to do than to go hunting around, he warned you before, the suit destruction was his last warning, don't temp your luck daughter, you don't know who you are messing with" Damon said with a grim look on his face, only to his daughter to look at him.
"The fact that he held his power makes it even more insulting to me" and with that, she shot upwards, breaking trough concrete like tissue paper, to the sky, leaving a sighing father who firmly believed that it was high time to Lydia to return, and put her daughter in place, because he couldn't do nothing else without recurring to violence, and that was something he would never recur, never.
Of course he did noted that the green bright spot on the night sky was slowly faltering, and the lights were flickering back, it seemed someone got ahead of her daughter, and he knew who.
"Good luck Phantom"
Ten minutes before…
Danny remained on the roof of his home, his sight focused on the green bright 'star' on the night sky, he knew his objective, he knew what he had to do, the fact remained that he would have to reveal his ghost half to yet another person, Dove's aunt and his mother seemed enemy, or nemesis, wherever you like to see it, in the end other person would know, and to top it all, it was someone who worked closely to the government"
"Danny if you're wondering If I'm going to rat you to my sister think again, the mere fact you trust your secret with me shows me that you believe in me, and I will not betray your trust…but I do expect your assistance in several experiments regarding energy usage, and I would like to have someone who can reach where I cannot" The voice of Catalina sounded on Danny's helmet communicator, he was worried about that, but as long she held her word, it was all fine.
"Okay son, we calculate that you will reach space in less than five minutes, your dad and I theorized that while in your ghost form, your body will be able to hold the monumental G-forces the jetpack will made upon ascension, also your body will endure the temperature of exit and the sub-zero temperature and vacuum of space, we do not know if will endure entrance to earth atmosphere, but I know the ecto-shield and the armor will be enough to hold entry, now remember…" Maddie began.
"Yes mom, destroy the satellite with the evil ghost inside, and not blowing nothing else, I got it, I want to become an astronaut I know the dangers" Danny said.
"Do that and I assure you that in your next summer vacations, a visit to the space center will be in your future…one will all out access to you"
If Catalina wanted to motivate Danny, she did it, and damn well.
"OK…GOIN GHOST!"
The twin rings of energy suddenly engulfed Danny and his armor, this one turning pitch black, with a white jetpack and green neon visor, his emblem on the metal.
"OK…I'm ready for lift-off…I always wanted to say that" Danny said, pressing the button near his chest plate, suddenly green flames erupted of the jetpack thrusters…
"YAAAHOOOO!!!" and with that Danny shot to the sky with a green flame behind him, "LOOK AT ME MOM! DAD! I'M GOING TO SPACEEEEE!!!"
Maddie and Jack chuckled at that remark of his son, as the teenager he is, and with the burden he had on his shoulders, they expected him to actually take things seriously, but when it relates the space, you can barely expect calm and collected Danny as an answer.
"He is enjoying it" Dove said as she heard the whoops and laughs of Danny trough the communicator in his helmet transmitting to them, "Is like a kid on a candy store" Jazz said with amusement, it was true as a fact, she would react the same if she was on a library full of mind theme related books and around the brightest minds on the subject.
On the road to space, Danny slightly grunted as his body broke the barrier of sound without a plane covering his body, or physical training to endure the massive G-forces acting on all his self, his mom was right, the armor lessened slightly the initial G-forces, while his ghost body endured the rest, had he left as a human he would be unconscious at the moment.
With a final burst of the Jetpack, Danny left the atmosphere of the planet, and ventured forth where no teenager had been before, not without a ship or much luck of course, the sight in front of him was overwhelming.
"Mom, dad, Jazz…guys…I wish you all were here to see this with me…is beautiful" Danny exclaimed, his neon eyes looking around the vastest of the space, the pitch black never ending void accompanied along with the countless stars that decorated the panorama, Danny was barely able to distinguish what seemed to be a multi colored cloud far in space, what scientists called the remains of a Super nova explosion, he was overwhelm by the sight of the moon, up-close and personal, the pale rock being as daunting at the countless satellites around the planet, the space shuttle near him, the first rays of sun visible, and of course the satellite possessed by Technus.
The astronauts on the space shuttle of course looked surprised to see a kid, a teenager, a ghost teenager, but a teenager in the end, floating in space, looking in anger at the possessed satellite.
"Buckle up people" their mission captain said as he pulled a camera, "Because the cavalry just arrived" and with that they saw Phantom shot himself at the satellite in defiance.
Danny began to fire Ecto-blasts at the Technus satellite, catching the attention of the master of technology, suddenly the satellite dish began to move and aimed at him, green beams firing of the antenna of the dish, Danny with expertise and some luck began to dodge the beams on zero gravity, retaliating with his own attacks, soon all who was in space was seeing an exchange of what they could say as plasma rays, none hitting because simply said, one thing is flying and fighting with gravity to pull you down, other is a no gravity affected environment, is hard.
Suddenly a beam of Technus hit Danny on the chest plate, making Danny grunt in pain and spin without control in space, with a smirk the ghost of technology began to charge an attack, a purple beam forming on the antenna of the dish, but he didn't knew that Danny could glimpse the future, and he had already a counter for that attack.
Technus fired the beam, just as Danny faced him again, extending his right hand, the ghost boy began to force his mind to stop the beam, which shocked all as it actually began to work as the purple beam began to lose momentum, finally the beam reached Danny's hand, and he began to compress it on his hand, on his left hand he formed a green orb of energy, then he fused forcefully both energies.
"Technus! You forgot this!" with a scream that prove that ghosts can speak freely in space without the need of air to transport their sound, Danny let the fused beam out, faster that Technus could ever predict, and impacted.
In the void of space only the sounds of his voices was audible, not even the explosion was heard, but the purple/green mist did was seen, and the astronauts saw how the Technus satellite began to lose luster, indicating that the more the damage, more the possession weakened, something Danny saw as well.
Soon Danny took advantage of the stunned Technus, and began to fire beams at the big target, green beam after green beam impacting on the satellite that began to lose bright, and some of Technus ghost features, like part of the face, but much to the astronauts amazement in space, Danny didn't fired a beam in his last barrage, but rather made like a push motion with his left hand, and much to their shock, a solar panel of the satellite was ripped clean.
It seemed Danny was winning the fight, as the flickering lights down indicated on some dark sectors of earth…
"AHHH!" but their shock furthered when a third person entered the fray, attacking Danny from behind, a red beam impacting on the right shoulder section of the armor, ripping it cleanly.
The astronauts saw with utter astonishment how Phantom turned his angry gaze at the red huntress, that one lifting a bazooka at him.
The huntress weapon suddenly flew away of her hands when Phantom extended his hand towards it, and shot it away, making it go as well, "I WARNED YOU!!!" he all but screamed, suddenly clasping both hands together in front of the possessed satellite, to the shock of the astronauts, the satellite was compress cleanly and like nothing, shocking even Valerie as the ghost inside the satellite exited the squeezed satellite, only to be sucked inside the thermos he carried, and as the satellite pummel to earth in a blaze, surely to fall on the ocean, Phantom focused his sights on the huntress.
"I thought I had left my message clear…I DON'T WANT YOU AROUND!!" and with that Danny shot at Valerie, who raised her arms in surprise, just to grunt in pain as a fist was slammed on her stomach roughly, and both pummeled also to earth.
"That is going to hurt" The captain of the shuttle said, before turning off the camera he had, and focusing and reestablishing communications with control on earth.
"AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!" she screamed as she felt the heat of reentering the atmosphere of earth at such a speed, it might not look much when it is a space shuttle doing it, but she was now feeling what the shuttle was put through every time it came back to earth, on the other end she was glad Mr. Masters made such a resilient suit, she was sure the last one would have burned with her inside.
She tried to punch Phantom, but all she earned was G-force preventing her to do so, and the fear that maybe her arm might end up falling away of her if she tries to do so at such speed kept her of doing that, she was not that stupid to try and attack Phantom while reentering atmosphere.
Soon the heat on her back began to recede, and she finally saw the blue sky instead of the black void of space, and she saw some clouds pass over her, she saw it as signal of attacking Phantom, which she did in earnest.
Planting her right knee on Phantom's armored side, she tried to bring him down, only to succeed on making him attack her, punching her on her armored face, in a way she was glad, he was finally attacking her with all he had, no holding back anymore.
After nearly a minute of trying to break each other's helmets away by punching it hard, Phantom suddenly let her go, seeing this as a chance to gain advantage, she flipped on mid-air, and her Jet-sled materialized on her legs, and just in time it seemed because as soon she was able to stop her free fall, she saw that she was just inches of touching the water, looking around she saw that she and Phantom were in the middle of the ocean, and she could clearly distinguish the remains of the satellite burning on the atmosphere near them, all the burned pieces would fall to the ocean, and be forever lost in the depths.
"Just as he as I'm done with him" she thought as she hovered over the water, and she saw him hover as well, he then began to reach for his left metallic glove, detaching it of the armor and tossing it to the water, Valerie raised an eyebrow at that, until she saw him brush the crystal on the glove hidden by the metal glove, and saw with wide eyes as the 'lightsaber' hilt took place in his right hand, but still not activating it.
"Leave this job Grey, this is not a life you want to carry" Phantom suddenly said to her, his neon eyes shining even with the green neon visor on, and by the look he was angry, but that wouldn't stop her, not now, in defiance she pulled her own lightsaber, and ignited it.
"You know my answer" she said, it would be a tense for both of them, she noted, she had been trained by her mom in the arts of combat, but nothing so extreme as a duel, and more of swords, she was sweating and was nervous, she didn't knew how she could bring him down, or defeat him.
But the tense minute passed, and nothing happened, only the sigh she heard of Phantom, "Next time Valerie…next time we end this" Was all he said before turning his back to her, and shot away fast thanks to the jetpack, surely to Amity Park, leaving her standing on the middle of the ocean.
She then took a deep sigh of relieve, she expected a battle, but it seemed things wouldn't go that way, in the end like he said, next time they would end it, but in the meantime she had two things to do, one related to her mother, it was high time to her to retake the last part of her training she avoided, the second would be of course finding a valid excuse to not assist school for a whole month, the time the so called 'hunters' exodus would be for the hunt of Phantom.
As she turned away as well, deep in her heart she knew, that the hunt in a month would be a battle like no other, and she would need all her might and skill to succeed, because there was money in the middle, the financial future of her father and he was on the game, and of course she regretted not telling Danny that she liked him…
"But as long Phantom roams, I will have to put my love life aside…I'm sorry Danny"
The world sighed in relieve as the global black out ended, energy came back fully, and so the network and communications that relied on satellites, all the world had to thank Phantom for it, since the crew of the space shuttle 'Invictus' transmitted the recording they made to control on earth, which gave it to other sources, who somehow got misplaced and the media got their hands on a copy.
As the world thanked the ghost boy for his heroic actions, and the government prepared a commendation for 'actions beyond the call of duty' not all was happiness for Danny.
He had returned home with a somber look, their parents actually believed that upon reentry to the earth atmosphere and while attacking the huntress, she had died on the heat, but she was alive, Danny and the media who saw her on the other end of the world assured that.
Danny refused to talk about it, he closed himself on his room, and decided to rest, he was tired, he was bored, but above all he was disappointed, he was unable to keep Valerie out of the ghost fights, like he promised to her future self…
"What is done is done, nothing can't be hoped to achieve by skulking Danny, you did what you could, but as I said, the human nature to defy even a preset future is something you cannot control, all you can hope now is to endure, and make sure to answer her battle calls with the same strength she expects" Draconax whispered on Danny's mind, but even as a whisper, it sounded firm and true.
"Is not that simple Draconax…how can I expect to help her when I have to attack her to do so"
"That is a question only you can answer Danny, for the moment rest, let the wounds of the mind, soul and flesh heal properly" Danny nodded at that, the dragon was right, there was much to be done, and the city still needed their defender, he would endure the pain for a little while, until the time came he and Valerie had to fight again, hopefully the whoopass he would deliver to her would snap her to more common thoughts.
Hopefully.
A little agnst i admit, but still a fitting ending for this chapter, admit it you all were expecting thta danny and valerie engaged on a epic combat of blades, but i will leave that for other chapter, now that i'm out of college for a while, i can focus completely on this, so no worries about two week or monthly updates, if i don't hit a writter block, it all be go smoothly, now for all we all expect, the preview of next chapter.
the ties that binds us are indestructible...
"h come on little bro, i said i was sorry for trapping you on the thermos...three times"
no matter how hard we try to cut them they reform, not even death can break them...
"Mom...i'm here to finish my training"
some say those binds make you weak, making more makes you weaker...
"i'm your cousin third removed, danielle"
in those binds we find those equal to us, kindred beings...
"Leave her alone Vlad! you're going to pay for trying to kill my husband!!"
in the next chapter or Rayearth Knights: Danny The Tsunami, kindred spirits...
"Let...go...of my...LITTLE SISTER!!"
And so the ties that bind makes us stronger...
and until a next time people, Hypn0s signs off!!