Chapter Nine: Ghostly Law Part Two: The Beginning.
It was time. The Ghost Boy's rival, Plasmius, had given them the proper equipment to do what needed to be done. They'd even make the boy bend to his rules, either as a ghost OR human. The boy would be held this time. He, and his punk friends.
Danny yawned. It was a little more then four days since the 'tests' and he was beat. For some strange reason, the arguing and fighting in the house had grown astronomical…
Between Kim and Peter's bathroom arguments, ("Oh this simply won't do! I must prim myself for untold hours in the best bathroom, and even then I don't know if it'll be enough!" came the cries from Peter with frustrated yelling coming from Kim in the background.) to Ben and June fighting over every little thing, ("You cooked me in a pizza! A PIZZA!" Ben yelled, as Gray Matter. "Yeah well, I didn't tell you to go swimming in pizza sauce, now did I Mr. Inch High!") to Jake constantly asking him if he could be co leader. It got really annoying after awhile, what with him constantly asking "Yo Dawg, here's a detailed and complicaaaataed report on why I, the Am Dragon, should be the Second in command!"
Wait a minute… "GAH!" Danny jumped backwards. Jake HAD just popped up. Danny took the piece of paper and read over it. "Ah, dude, all it says is that Ben and June smell funny and that you're the American Dragon so there…"
"Yeah!"
"…" Danny lowered his head and walked away. Far, far away. Infact, Danny wasn't sure if he'd ever STOP walking.
Then the blast came down in front of him. And he was tossed back by the explosion. He looked up, his vision blurred, to see a site he thought he wouldn't have seen for the rest of his life: Walker's guards. Walker's guards holding ectoguns. They were rather like Valieries old models, before she got the suit upgrade from Technus…
Danny didn't get long to think, as the guards brought up the guns, and started raining down the ectoenergy fire power. Danny yelped, before sinking into the ground. He came up behind them, and with two white rings of energy consuming him, transformed into Danny Phantom, while firing off two energy blasts, taking the guards out. 'Whenever one of Walker's goons show up, there's an army more…' Danny thought to himself, reaching into his pockets and pulling out a strange device.
The device itself was circular shape, almost like the old Teen Titan's communicators. However, unlike the old models, these were advanced tech. The design on the top of the comunicator was a T with an X sliced right into it, the top two points of the X touching the end points of the T. The X was silver, while the T was black, and the device itself was red. Danny pressed an unseen button on the top, at the left half of the T, as a holographic screen popped up.
At this point in time, I should mentioned a thing or two. Over the course of the four days the team had banded together more then ever, in some cases, and started rigging up some things. Ben had been Gray Matter (With the exceptions of when the Omnitrix screwed up, and he was transformed into Rip Jaws, much to June's amusement) for the majority of the time, pitting his alien smarts into helping create team items such as their communicators out of space tech that was laying around.
He had also been helping Kim with weapon designs, while June looked into creating her own costume. (Bluejeans and a teeshirt are not the way to go when fighting evil, after all.) And June was the first to show up.
She didn't bother with a helmet, since the news people had already seen her face, but instead had opted into wearing a form fitting suit that had a red and black color scheme. On her chest was her symbol that was on her teeshirt, amidst a black background. The symbol was pinkish in color. Her entire suit was really mostly black, with streaks of red appearing in a pattern, that if Danny had to guess, was based off of her hair. She wore fingerless gloves, completely red, and rather clunky boots. The arms of her suit as a dance of red and black, jagged and slashing. She also had some magical items at odd points on her body for easy access, just in case. At her belt, it was rather like Raven's, only it didn't hang down. She cast a look towards Danny, asking "Friends of yours?"
"I wish," Danny replied, eyeing the two ghosts warily.
Then he was knocked cold by an electic blast, not even able to get out a scream.
"DANNY!" Kim yelled, leaping down to the battle scene. She too had modified her suit, adding the alerters that was on Raven and Starfire's costumes here and there, and adding sections for weapons and such. Some strange thing with only one eye and wearing Camo jeans (But no shirt. Part of her mind, the fashion part, tsked at that) had just knocked out Danny, and fifteen other police looking creatures had risen up out of the island ground. Among them, as a tall white ghost with a skull like face, with a deep glare and burning green eyes. The ghost, obviously the leader, cast a look over at the two girls, and Jake (Ben was busy yelling at his Omnitrix for it to hurry up.) who had just arrived, and spoke to his troops in a deep southern accent.
"Take them."
The guards grinned, as they rose up their guns and started blasting. Jake took to the air, rushing at them at full speed while June and Kim dodged away from the blasts, Kim trying to grab an explosive…
Jake slammed into, and went THROUGH one of the ghost guards. "What the?" Then he was blasted, the electric weapon being turned on high, forcing him to turn back into his human self and fall to the ground.
"They're full ghosts…which means that they are always intangible!" Kim relised. This was SO bad. Her weapons wouldn't work…
Then a look crossed June's eyes, as she reached to her right shoulder and touched a stone rune like thing, three times. Her body started to glow white. "So? You tell Ben to get his butt down here, while I take care of these clowns."
Kim nodded towards June, heading up towards the Tower. Incase you haven't guessed yet, they are still on the island.
June rushed towards the Ghosts, dodging ectoenergy blasts, and knocked one out with a fierce blow to the head. She had activated a rune that allows her to touch intangible beings, but it only works for one. The More You Know music plays
Flipping off of that one, as it started to fall to the ground, she slammed herself into another, as Kim and Ben came back. Ben was in the form of Ghost Freak. Kim grabbed up Jake, before one of the guards could take him, and ran out of the way as Ben started after the nearest ghost he could find, flying at full speed…
Only to be knocked down, and knocked out, by twenty ectoguns going off at once. "H-how…?" he muttered.
"It's ecto energy, Ben. You're a ghost. Which means their weapons work on you better then ever…" Kim said, watching in fear as June was being surrouned. "JUNE!" She cried out, as the white ghost brought his fist down onto the back of the girl's skull, knocking her out cold. Walker glared at the others, then turned his back on them.
"We have what we want. Grab the ghost boy and get back to base. NOW." Walker barked, tossing a cube looking device at Danny, enclosing him in an energy field. Two ghosts picked up the 'sleeping' ghost boy, and flew off.
"Danny, no! DANNY!" Kim yelled, watching the ghosts dissapear…then she noticed something else, with a sinking horror. Danny wasn't their only prisoner.
Peter was with them as well. Not even fully in costume. They must have slipped in and…
Danny shook his head, getting up. He found one of two things: he was stuck in his ghost mode, and he was in a dark room.
"Guys?!" He called out. No answer. At least…no answer from his friends. There was ONE answer.
"Hello there." Came a voice from the darkness. Danny couldn't tell where. It was too dark to be normal.
"Uh…where am I?"
The voice sounded oddly…content. "Why, in Walker's prison of course."
"Oh great." Danny muttered to himself, sinking to the ground. While he was stuck in his ghost form, due to some weird device, he couldn't move his arms, or use any of his powers. Weird.
"If I help you…will you help me?" The voice asked.
"Uh…sure…" Danny answered in return, standing back up. He felt the device being SLICED off of his body, the energy field going with it. Danny turned back into his human form and walked out of the door. Then, turning back into Danny Phantom, he punched in the Open key on the door, as it opened with a hiss.
"Now…for your reward…" the voice said. Danny gasped as an energy blade sliced into his chest…
And he screamed…and screamed…and screamed…
To be continued…
