Here's the edited version of chapter 2. Here we see the start of the Ghost attack on the hospital, and how the Fentons and the Team are Dealing with it.
::IMPORTANT:: The reviewer responses have all been moved to a separate chapter at the end, following the Medical Reference Guide.
Danny phantom Belongs to Butch Hartman, House belong to David Shore. I'm not making money off of this so please don't sue me.
Chapter 7 - Ghost Attack, Part 1 -
The hospital was in complete chaos. Twelve ghosts had appeared in Princeton Plainsboro, seemingly from nowhere, and started to do as much damage to the hospital as possible without truly endangering any lives. Those were Vlad's orders – take hostages, but don't hurt them yet, and make sure that the Fentons are forced to agree to their terms.
Youngblood and his pirate crew had flown immediately to where they could cause the most fear – pediatrics. He couldn't intimidate the adults that couldn't see him. He was now just attacking them at random and scaring them.
Technus quickly found the control room for the hospital electric system and from there took over the many machines that belonged to the hospital. Before anyone had a chance to react, he had turned the machinery in the hospital against its own staff. All around the hospital computers, electronic doors, and elevators now refused to work. He hoped that his control over the life support machines would keep anyone from interfering with his plans. The heart monitors were all turned off so the ghost could concentrate his powers on important machinery, but every life support machine worked fine for now.
Ember found her way to where the PA system controls were located. Knocking the people in the room unconscious with one guitar stroke, she put her CD into the system. Soon her song was soon pouring from every speaker in the hospital. All the patients, minus those being terrorized by Captain Youngblood, drifted off into a deep sleep.
The Box Ghost and the Lunch Lady were working together, both wreaking havoc in the place they worked best - the cafeteria. Meat products and untended packages were flying everywhere. They were only minor ghosts to ghosts hunters like Danny and his parents, but none of the cafeteria staff dared to move. The ghost couple created a mess and threatened the workers, but no one had been attacked – yet.
All five ghosts awaited their orders from Vlad.
During all this Walker, Skulker, Bertrand, Johnny 13, and Kitty were distracting the Fentons while the others got into place. It was odd to see the five ghost working toward a single goal, but despite the odds all of the ghosts were attacking them at the same time.
Needless to say with the odds being five ghosts to two humans, the ghosts were close to winning.
"Ha! You couldn't hit the broad side of a barn if you were a foot away! You call yourself a ghost hunter?" Kitty taunted as she evaded several blasts sent her way by Jack. "Missed me!"
"Not this time," Jack said as he sent another blast. This time it connected.
"Don't you try and hit my girl! Shadow, attack!" Johnny yelled. As he went over to check on the fallen ghost, his formless shadow flew into action. A few seconds later, it had wrapped itself around both of the Fentons, successfully trapping them.
Skulker took out a large ecto-weapon and aimed it at them, ready to attack as soon as he wanted. "This will be suitable revenge for all the time the whelp has attacked me," He muttered so quietly that no one else heard.
"Fighting us and trying to disrupt our mission. That's against the rules. I'm afraid I can't let you escape without the proper sentence," Walker grinned. "Anything you want to say as your last words, humans?"
"Yup!" Jack answered, looking toward a spot behind the ghosts with a grin, "Enjoy your time in the Fenton thermos, ghost!"
"What the-?" Walker said, looking behind him just a second too late. He soon found himself being trapped inside the Fenton thermos. The light faded to reveal Jazz standing there, holding the device.
Both Fentons fell to the ground as the shodow dropped them, apparently deciding that Jazz was a better target instead. Before long, all three Fentons were figting.
"Get down!" Jack yelled as he aimed the jack-o-nine-tails at Bertrand, capturing the ghost in the netting. Jazz didn't miss a beat as she trapped him in the thermos a second later. Maddie jumped into action, sending a flying kick in Skulker's direction.
Two ghosts down, four to go.
While Skulker was doing his best to fight off Maddie, the other two were busy fighting Johnny 13, Kitty and Shadow. They seemed to be in a deadlock.
"This is for attacking a hospital, you creep!" Jack shouted as he launched himself at the biker ghost. Jack hit him with a well-aimed shot from the Fenton bazooka, and soon he was trapped in the Fenton thermos as well. Unfortunately his shadow, Kitty and Skulker were still there.
"Light!" Jazz suddenly shouted, remembering what Danny had told her about Johnny 13's shadow. "This thing hates light!" She managed to shout before Kitty hit her, effectively knocking her out.
"I've got it!" Jack announced, jumping into the RV and shining a spotlight on the shadow ghost, causing it to dissolve. He quickly ran over to his daughter, blasting Kitty out of the way. Jazz was waking up.
"She's going to pay for that," Jazz said, taking the Fenton thermos and capturing Kitty from behind.
While Jack and Jazz were busy fighting the three other ghosts, Skulker was fighting Maddie. He launched a few blasts at the group, and they were all thrown a few feet back.
While the fight was going on, neither the Fentons nor the ghosts realized that their battle was being watched by four figures in one of the hospital rooms.
Danny's hospital room
"Do you see what your actions have caused, Daniel?" Vlad said in a fake, overly sad tone. "If only you had listened to me, your family wouldn't be in danger. The offer still stands, you know," Vlad reminded him.
"Poor ghost-child, your family is fighting for their lives down there, and it's all your fault! There lives would be so much better without you, why not give them what they want? A life without a freak in the family!" Spectra taunted, using her powers to drain away what little hope Danny had left.
'Ignore them. You know she drains negative energy,' Danny thought, but couldn't help but feel that deep down, she was right. If he wasn't part of his family, then they wouldn't be risking their lives. He shook his head, cutting off that train of thought. 'I can't feel guilty. I know they'd do anything for me, just like I'd do the same for them,' He told himself. But they didn't stop their tirade.
"You know, I could grant your wish. One sentence from you and all of these ghosts will be back in the ghost zone. You just have to agree to denounce your family, then the hospital and you family will be safe," Desiree said. "Just one sentence. I promise I won't screw this one up. When you decide to make the right choice, we'll all be here waiting."
"What's stopping me from doing that now?" Danny asked cheekily. He wasn't going to let them get to him.
Desiree grinned. "If you ask before agreeing to our terms, then Vlad will just un-wish the wish."
"Forgot about that," Danny sighed. It looked like there wasn't going to be an easy way out.
"Care to watch their impending doom? A doom that you drove them to?" Vlad smirked.
"You're wrong," the youngest Fenton said confidently. "Sam and my family are more than capable of defending this hospital against any ghost. They'll pull through, I know they will."
"Please, that bumbling idiot? He's more of a threat to this hospital than the ghosts are! Any success they may have will be thwarted by his stupidity! You've always known you can't rely on him!" Vlad spat bitterly
"Don't talk about my family like that!" Danny shouted, an ecto-blast forming in his hand and shooting across the room, narrowly missing Vlad. "What the-?" He stopped, looking at where the blast had hit the wall.
Instead of the blast being its usual bright neon-green, it had been a sickly, pale green.
Hospital lobby
Dr. House, Foreman, Chase and Cameron were all hiding behind the reception desk in the lobby. Even though they had never been in a ghost attack before, they were smart enough not to get involved.
"So, believe in ghosts yet, Foreman?" Chase taunted, not able to help himself. He gave Foreman an 'I told you so' look, then switched his attention back to the fight.
Foreman glared at his colleague, but the response he was about to give was cut off by House.
"Shut up, you idiots!" House hissed, successfully quieting them both. "I'm trying to listen to what they're saying! It could be important!" He looked over the counter and observed the Fentons fighting outside. "Did any of you see the twelve ghosts arriving?" House asked the three.
"I did. They came when I was filling out paperwork down here," Chase said.
"Did any of them look like a teen ghost with white hair, dressed in black?" House asked, still looking at the fight. The newspapers said the ghost was benevolent, so house wanted to ask him a few questions about Amity Park.
"No, none that fit that description. One had white hair… but it was a mullet, and he was old," Chase remembered.
"Definitely the wrong one," House responded.
From their hiding spot behind the counter, they could see the entire fight and hear the dialogue exchanged. Fortunately they were far enough away to not be in any immediate danger.
Outside
"Come on! Surely you can do better than that? I though you claimed to be the best ghost hunters out there!" Skulker laughed as the three ghost hunters rounded on him once again. He and Kitty dodged all of their attacks easily. At this rate, the other ghosts would have control of the hospital in no time.
"Don't give them too much credit, they have yet to even take a ghost back to their lab," she told Skulker. Frowning, she then turned back to them and shouted, "But you're still going down for capturing my boyfriend!"
"You need to develop a better taste in men! Your boyfriend is a jerk!" Jazz responded as she evaded the attack sent her way, and launched one of her own back.
"Why you! Don't talk about him!" Kitty shouted angrily. Before Jazz could move the ghost lost her temper, and launched herself at Jazz full force. When she was about halfway to where Jazz was, she was captured in a beam of blue light. A second later she was trapped in the Fenton Thermos along with the others.
The three ghost hunters banded together and turned their attention to their final opponent – Skulker.
"What we need is to destroy that suit," Jazz told her parents, "But it won't be easy. Once it's destroyed though, capturing him will be a cinch."
"I've got it!" Jack said in one of his rare moments of brilliance, "The Fenton ghost peeler can destroy that suit!"
"That's perfect! Great idea!" Jazz nearly cheered. She remembered all too well when she had used the device to defeat Spectra.
"I'll go get it while you distract him," Maddie whispered before making a mad dash to the G.A.V.
"Retreating already?" Skulker laughed arrogantly as he watched Maddie escape and the other two turn to face him. He'd been floating there waiting for them to make the first move.
"A Fenton never gives up! Or surrenders!" Jack shouted as he grabbed the nearest weapon he could find (The Jack-o-nine-tails), and launched himself at the 7-foot-tall ghost, diverting his attention from Maddie.
Jazz joined the fight and together they managed to hold their own against Skulker. All Jazz could think was, 'Danny would be proud.'
"You'll never defeat me! Not while your precious defender isn't able to save you!" Skulker taunted, referring to Danny, though only Jazz got the reference.
"Wanna bet?" Jazz shot back, smirking, as she saw Maddie walk up behind the ghost, Fenton Ghost Peeler in hand.
Skulker turned, but didn't have time to react before his metallic armor was peeled away by the invention, leaving the 3-inch-tall blob behind.
Maddie quickly trapped him in the thermos, and the three all breathed a sigh of relief.
"Let's go get those other ghosts!" Jack exclaimed.
Danny's hospital room
Danny was grinning in victory. Vlad was pissed, which amused him to no end. "Looks like you underestimated them after all, Vlad," he taunted. If there was one thing he knew that Vlad hated, it was being bested by Jack Fenton.
"It won't happen again, trust me," Vlad assured menacingly. "Spectra, tell the ghosts not to hurt any of the patients yet, but if they come across the Fentons, use every advantage. Don't hold back."