Danny barely managed to survive his encounter with Plasmius. Something told him that his friends were still alive. Using the tracking devices, he managed to find each of them, all of them still alive.
"I still can't believe you guys are alive" Danny stated.
"Well it wouldn't be much of a story if the bad guy killed us" Eddie signed.
"How did the Guys in White go from idiots to deadly mercenaries, they're incompetent bumbling jokes" McKenzie noted.
"Well you know that traitor I mentioned earlier?" Danny asked. "You'll notice that one of us is missing"
"Valerie was the traitor?!" Said Sam .
Danny nodded.
"But that still doesn't explain how the Guys in White found out all our weaknesses and managed to exploit them" Dani explained.
"Actually I may have something to do with that" Tucker said, getting everyone's attention. "I kinda made plans to take you down in case we ever went rogue, but they weren't designed to kill hence why they failed."
"You did what?" Sam asked.
"Well we would pose a threat if we ever turned to the dark side so I made emergency plans. The only ones who knew about it were me, Eddie, and Valerie" Tucker explained.
"Before everybody starts yelling at Tucker, you have to admit it was a good idea," Eddie signed. "This team consists of a savvy techno geek, an badass goth girl who could easily break your legs, a reality warper, a sociopathic telekinetic, a ghost girl who can freeze you solid, and a ghost boy who could destroy you with his screams. Do you really think this town would stand a chance against us?"
"Yeah, it was a good plan. So good that now we've got to leave Amity Park" Dani pointed out.
"Why?" Tucker asked.
"Because the GIW think we're dead; if they find out we're alive, they'll stop at nothing to kill us" Danny explained.
"We could stay with your sister" Dani suggested.
"No, they've probably got a tight eye on all our families" Danny realized.
"So where are we going to go?"
"Well I have a suggestion but you might not like it. We could stay in Rock City" Eddie signed.
"Rock City?" Danny asked.
"It's the sister city to Detroit, but it's not half bad" Eddie explained..
"Since we don't have any other choice I suppose we have to, we better leave now before anyone sees us" Danny said.
And so our protagonists begin their journey to the cesspool known as Rock City. As they walk, Eddie notices that Sam and Kenzie are deliberately staying a few steps behind the rest of the group. Curious and sensing that something was wrong, Eddie shapeshifted into a bat and flew over to them.
Bat Eddie held up a Wile E. Coyote sign reading "Is everything okay?"
"We're fine" Kenzie said. "We were just having a little talk"
Eddie could tell she was lying and held up another sign reading "You don't look fine,"
"She said she's fine Eddie, it's nothing," Sam insisted.
Now Eddie knew that the two were hiding something and held up a sign saying "I know you're lying to me. Something's troubling you, come on; you two can tell me. I won't tell anyone."
Kenzie turned her back to Eddie to hide the fact that she was crying and became quite defensive. "I've already told you nothings wrong, now leave us alone!"
Eddie flew in front of Kenzie and held up a sign saying "I'm worried about you. You've been suffering mental breakdowns more frequently as of late and I can't stand to see you like this. Please, let me help you,"
"I don't want to talk about it!" Kenzie said, the tears running down her face more.
"Besides Eddie, there's nothing to talk about,"Sam said. "Kenzie's going to be fine."
Eddie held up a sign reading "You two do remember that my telepathic powers also give me empath abilities, right? I can tell something's wrong,". With that, Eddie shifted back into his human form. Finally, Kenzie relented.
"Fine! When I was being held hostage and tortured by Vlad, he wanted to hurt you in the most personal way. One night, after beating me once again under the guise of training, he stripped me naked and strapped me down to an examination table before..." Kenzie stopped as the tears flowed more freely despite her best attempts to stop them. "Before he started raping me. I fought, kicked, bit, and did everything I could to try to stop him, but nothing worked. I begged him to stop, but he only laughed and said this was only the beginning. He said he was going to show you and the entire team what happens when you sabotage his plans."
Eddie's jaw nearly dropped to the floor as he was unable to believe what he was hearing. He always knew Vlad was an egomaniacal fruit loop, but never once suspected him of being capable of such evil. "He did what?"
"That wasn't the last time he'd rape me either" Kenzie revealed. "Everyday until you guys finally came to my rescue, he'd rape me to further break my spirit. He even taunted me, saying that I enjoyed it and calling me a slit. Just to humiliate me even further, he gave me what he called a "tattoo""
Kenzie then turned around and pulled up her shirt to reveal the words "Worthless", "Slut,""Pathetic", and ";Useless"; burned/carved into her back in large capital letters.
"Oh my gosh, why didn't you tell any of us?"; Eddie signed before kneeling over and vomiting.
"She told me and only me because she didn't want any of the others to know but felt she needed to get it off her chest," Sam revealed.
By now, Kenzie was hysterically sobbing, having suffered another breakdown from having to recount the horrific ordeal. Sam and Eddie wrap their arms around her, trying to comfort her. Kenzie's broken sobs racked her body so hard that she shook and trembled. Finally after a couple of minutes, Kenzie managed to compose herself and the three of them caught back up with the rest of the team.
"Hey author, let me kill Vlad in this story, please. I can spare murderers and psychos but rapists is where I draw the line, especially a fruit loop creep who rapes my girlfriend"
But Vlad is Danny's archenemy.
"He became my archenemy when he murdered my brother and raped McKenzie" Eddie replied. "Besides, it's been a while since I've gotten to murder anybody"
Fine, it'll be a great ending to my Danny Phantom story trilogy.
"Thanks, Kenny; I owe you big time" Eddie expressed his gratitude. "And quit telling everything I do. Hey reader, do me a favor and teach this gimp how to write better"
Eventually the group reached Rock City. Tired and exhausted, they started searching for a place to stay. Suddenly a cry for help.
"Help, help! That man stole my purse!" A woman screamed.
The team turned their attention to a man running down the street with the woman's purse. Without missing a beat, Eddie jumps in front of the thief and punches him in the face, breaking his nose. He then returned the purse to the woman.
"Thank you so much," the woman thanked.
As soon as she left, the thief got back up and tried to pick a fight with Eddie, who quickly broke his collarbone.
"If you know what's good for you, stay down punk" Eddie signed.
Before the gang could continue exploring Rock City, a siren went off.
"What's going on?" Danny asked.
"That's the ghost alarm," the thief explained. "It goes off any time there's a ghost attack."
"Ghosts? We just left Amity Park and we have to deal with ghosts" Danny exclaimed.
"Amity Park? Hey, you're Danny Phantom, that half ghost kid who saved the world from that asteroid." The criminal said, recognizing the team. "Say, can I have your autograph?"
An explosion rocked the ground as a huge green ghost with a slight resemblance to DC Comics' Doomsday started tearing up the town.
"I'm going ghost!" Danny yelled as he and Eddie transformed into their ghost forms to combat the behemoth.
Danny started off the fight by firing ghost rays at the ghost, but the beams harmlessly bounced off the ghost's rough skin.
"Danny, why are you fighting when you could just use the Fenton Thermos to capture it?" Danielle asked.
Danny facepalmed at his stupidity and quickly pulled out the thermos and used it to capture the ghost. A crowd of onlookers quickly gathered around to get an autograph from the great Danny Phantom. Then the thermos began to shake before breaking apart, freeing the powerhouse ghost who went on a rampage.
Danny turned towards the reader and said "Well, now you know".
The Supreme Halfa punched the ghost in the face which only hurt Danny's hand and angered the ghost even further. The Ghost grabbed Danny and smashed him into the ground repeatedly before executing a back breaker. Shady tried to stun the Ghost with an electrical shock, but the Ghost swatted him away like a fly. Before the Ghost could inflict any more pain, a ghost with short paper white hair, bright red eyes and wearing a blood red jumpsuit attacked. He was accompanied by a boy with short, jet black hair, dark green eyes and had average build.
"Look!" One onlooker shouted.
"It's the Crimson Specter!" Another yelled.
The Crimson Specter, attacked the Ghost with ecto beams, causing a small explosion. When the dust cleared, the Ghost was still standing.
"Looks like it's going to take a more than a few ectobeams to take you down" The Specter noted,
"Hurry up, man; you know Mom and Dad don't like us fighting ghosts before dinner" the boy shouted.
"I'm pretty sure they'll understand, Eddy" The Specter replied, shocking the Ghost with electricity.
The Ghost froze at first froze and it appeared that he was defeated. But when the Crimson Specter moved in to capture him, the Ghost sucker punched him, nearly sending him into orbit. The Ghost then turned his attention to Eddy who fired an anti ghost pistol at the Ghost. The Ghost charged at him but was stopped when Shady telekinetically smashed the Ghost with two cars. Danny created duplicates of himself but the Ghost quickly destroyed them.
The Crimson Specter, came flying out of the sky crashing into the Ghost, creating a huge crater. The seemingly invulnerable Ghost got back to his feet and continued his destructive rampage. Tucker, watching from the sidelines, pulled out a scanner he had "borrowed" from Mr. & Mrs. Fenton and scanned the Ghost for any weaknesses.
"This ghost is a Category IV, Type III: A Juggernaut," Tucker said.
"What does that mean?" Danny asked.
"It means he has a high resistance to physical damage and most ghost hunting weapons. He lacks most ghostly abilities such as flight, intangibility, invisibility, etc. But makes up for it with his incredible strength" Tucker explained.
"Does he have any weaknesses?" Danny asked.
"Yeah, loud noises weaken him and leave him highly vulnerable and susceptible to damage." Tucker told him
"Loud noises, eh?" Crimson said before looking up and flying towards a bell tower.
"Come on guys, let's give them a hand," Danny said.
"I'm on it!" Shady signed before he smashed through the window of a music store, hooked a drum set up to a stereo, cranked it up to 11, and proceeded to repeatedly play the drum solo from In the Air Tonight. Sam, Tucker, and Dani give him a hand by picking up some electric guitars and strumming a few notes.
Danny meanwhile unleashed his Ghostly Wail and much to his surprise, Kenzie did the same thing. Slowly but surely the Behemoth succumbs to the loud noise, falling unconscious and allowing Danny to capture it using the Fenton thermos.
"I didn't know you could do that," Danny said to Kenzie.
"One of my powers is the ability to perfectly mimic another ghost's attacks and ability simply by observing them," Kenzie said before smirking and saying "In fact, you could say I can perform the attack better than the person who created it,"
"Don't get cocky," Danny said, smiling back at her and glad to see signs of her old confident self shining through.
The four halfas changed back into their human forms. As does the Crimson Specter, whose human form is identical to his brother. Ryan walks up to the team and introduces himself.
"Hi, the name's Ryan Jones and this is my twin brother Edward," Ryan introduced himself, extending his hand to shake Danny's.
"My name's Danny Fenton aka Danny Phantom," Danny said, shaking Ryan's hand and introduced his friends. "These are my friends: Sam, Tucker, McKenzie, Eddie, and my sister Danielle,"
"So why don't you guys come over to our place off supper where we can get to know each other better?"Ryan asked.
"That sounds great," Dani said.
"Cool, I'm sure Mom wouldn't mind having a few guests," Eddy said.
With that said, the gang headed to Ryan's house.
Special thanks to Gamelycan for submitting the character Ryan Jones and his family.
