To Insanity
Flashback:
" . . I should be the one dying, not you." The heart monitor beeped; his son was dead. Danny squeezed his son's clammy hand in his own. "I'm so sorry . . . " he whispered.
Eyes streamed down Danny's face, which would be red from all the saltwater when he turned visible. 'Snap out of it Danny,' a hidden inner voice told him. 'Zac was a halfa. For all you know he could be a full ghost. He would not appreciate it if you broke down now. Just get a hair, get your parents' Boo-merang, and start looking for him.'
Danny extended a trembling hand to his son's corpse and carefully plucked a hair off of the scalp. Danny floated out of the hospital, in the direction of the FentonWorks.
Danny removed his own ectoplasmic sample from the detachable tray in the Boo - merang. He was panting, anticipating the results of what he was about to do. He replaced the tray. "Please find my son," he whispered, holding it to him. He wound up and threw the device. It flew out the basement window and took to the skies. Danny followed it, eagerly.
He pushed his speed limit to keep up with it. He flew around street corners and toward a large building. Danny followed it in through a window. "No!" Danny cried. The Boo - merang landed on his son's lifeless body.
The doctors spun around in alarm. "Who's there!"
"It's a ghost! Quick! Call Danny and Valerie Fenton!"
"Are you kidding? No one could get a hold of them after their son died."
"Then I guess we'll have to call Jack and Maddie. I know they're old, but they're still ghost hunters."
Jack and Maddie Fenton rushed into the hospital room. "Show yourself, you post-mortal consciousness!" shouted Maddie. Danny, still upset from completely losing his son, obeyed his mom's command immediately.
"Maddie! It's Phantom!" Jack shouted. He ran toward Danny, but lost his balance and went sliding across the floor. Maddie moved in closer, prepared to shoot the ghost.
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Danny was a ghost? Phantom? Poor Jack and Maddie Fenton were confused about the whole thing. There was only one thing they knew. Their son had died in the fight . . .