Chapter 10
Wednesday, Ivan thought as he woke up feeling…tired. He was never tired in the morning. He once stayed up a week straight, and not once felt tired. Ivan struggled through his exercises, this isn't right! Ivan collapsed after he finished then struggled to stand and take his shower. After cleaning up he got on his pants and black shirt and denim jacket. He passed Selma on the way downstairs and she said, "Are you okay?" "Why do you ask?" Ivan responded, trying to sound like he wasn't exhausted. "You look terrible," Selma said, with the kind of matter-of-fact tone that only someone with autism could say.
"I'm fine, Selma," Ivan told her. "Okay," Selma said, and they went downstairs for breakfast then Chloe took the kids to their schools. The whole day Ivan felt a little slower, and a little more tired than before. It was like he was moving through watered down jello. Around lunch time Ivan took his tray and it felt a little heavier. He was slightly relieved when he finally sat down to eat. He ate his meal as fast as he could, still feeling sluggish. As he went to return his tray he tripped and ended up bumping into a small girl, sending both of them to the ground. "Uff, Ivan, what are you doing!?" the girl said, and Ivan realized he was on Amy.
"S-sorry," Ivan mumbled as he got up. "Are you okay?" Amy asked him. "I'm f-fine," Ivan started to say then stumbled, only for Amy to catch him. "You're going to the Nurse, now," Amy told him, in a tone that said 'no backtalk'. Ivan let her take him down the hall until they were halfway to the Nurse's Office when he said; "Don't do this. He won't be able to help anyway." "You're hardly an expert," Amy said, nearly dragging him along. "This isn't a human thing! It's a ghost thing!" Ivan said, finally putting his feet down and pulling away from her. Amy looked at him and Ivan started to walk away when she said, "You're losing your powers."
"I KNOW!" Ivan roared at her, sounding like a bear that learned speech. Amy backed up from him and he calmed down immediately. "I'm sorry," he said, "But, you don't know how it feels, I was on top of the world, and now…" "Is it really that bad to be a human for you?" Amy asked him. Ivan swallowed…Then was saved by the bell and the two of them walked to English together. They finally finished Romeo and Juliet and now moved on to Tale of Two Cities. Ivan had read it years ago; he had read a lot of what people called 'The Classics'. His Dad thought it would make him appreciate his human side. It was one of the few 'Classics' he actually liked.
After the lesson was over, Amy stuck to Ivan like glue, "I'm waiting for an answer." Amy looked at him and the look said, 'I don't care what your powers are, I want an answer'. "Compared to what a halfa can do, humans are nothing, Hell, they're nothing compared to ghosts. So, yes, becoming more human sucks," Ivan stated, then turned to march out the school and ran into his Mom. Ivan felt very small all of a sudden as she said, "'Human's are nothing'?" "I…she…what I meant… Ĉu ni povas paroli pri tio poste, bonvulu?" Can we talk about this later, please? Chloe sighed and said, "Come on, we have something you need to see."
Ivan went into his Mom's car and Chloe drove him near the outskirts of AmityPark, where he saw Grandpa Danny in his Ghost Form waiting for them with his arms crossed and an angry expression on his face. That's never good. Chloe stepped out of the car and went Ghost, turning her black hair white and blue eyes green while her uniform changed into a black and red long-sleeve tanktop with one red glove and one black glove and black and red pants with red boots and a red CP symbol on her chest. This is getting serious, Ivan thought as they approached Grandpa Danny. Ivan and Chloe wordlessly followed him as he reached down and pulled up a trap door.
As they walked through a long metal hall Ivan saw a lot of destroyed machines. "Got a workout Grandpa?" Ivan commented. "No, but your Mom went a little overboard," Danny told him. "It was a long day," Chloe said as they walked on. "Why are you in Ghost Form if you already got through this?" Ivan eventually asked. "Because, this facility was made by Vlad Plasmius, there's bound to be something we missed," Danny said, his voice filled with hatred for his long dead foe. They finally made it to a computer that had PASSWORD: on it.
Danny walked up to it and typed in, 'Maddie Masters'. PASSWORD ACCEPTED went the computer, and it showed a bunch of icons. Danny clicked on one marked 'Inventions'. He then scrolled through until he found 'Master Plan'. "How does he know this?" Ivan asked his Mom. "Vlad used to say I was more like him than I knew. I guess he was right," Danny said as he clicked one more time. On screen a red haired older woman, mid to late thirties with fantastic curves said, "The video is ready Lemon-cake." Great-Grandma Fenton? Ivan thought, before he realized it was just a primitive hologram.
"Ah, thank you so much dear," Vlad Masters said on the screen. He's smaller than I imagined, Ivan thought as the recording of Vlad cleared his throat. "In 24 hours the space object that the media has so helpfully called 'Disasteroid' will enter Earth's orbit, obliterating the planet. At least, that's what they think." Vlad then overly dramatically went Ghost and continued. "I will ransom the world, in exchange for total control and $500 billion I will fly up into space and make 'Disasteroid' intangible and thus the world will be mine." Vlad went on a little psychopathic laughing spree before continuing.
"Of course, there will be opposition. $500 billion should come in handy to hire a few mercenaries, and no one will be able to stop me when they're equipped with this!" Vlad then stepped around to show off one of the battle suits that Ivan had destroyed. "The Master Obliterator, with high density titanium armor and firing .54 caliber armor piercing bullets at the rate of 2500 rounds a minute, with these my mercenaries can conquer any country!"
"Vlad didn't lose it after all that time in space, he already lost it," Danny said. "And if Daniel gets in my way, I have this, the Plasmius Power Zapper Mark III," Vlad bellowed, and then the camera turned to a ghost strapped to a table. Vlad blasted the ghost and Danny, Chloe and Ivan watched in horror as it slowly dissolved into goop and the goop evaporated. "Of course it won't be as effective against half-ghosts, but it will permanently destroy his ghost DNA for good, and nothing will bring it back!" Vlad said then looked directly at the camera. "And Daniel, I know that only you could have gotten this far into my files…" "Oh shit!" Danny yelled as all here of them turned around to see dozens of flying spheres flying towards them, blasting lasers.
Chloe quickly raised an ecto-energy shield to protect Ivan and herself while Danny blasted away at the flying spheres, destroying them all. COUNTDOWN: 43, 42, 41... Danny grabbed Ivan as he and Chloe flew as fast as they could, blasting ghost rays at flying spheres that were coming out of the wall as they flew. Just as they saw the exit, explosions went off across the compound. Danny quickly raised an ecto-energy shield around himself and his family. While all this went on, Ivan said nothing, too shocked to say anything.