I think this chapter will be shorter than the other chapters, but it is still important. And remember Agent Z? The agent working for the Guys in White who caught Danny? She's in this, but practically the whole thing is just Danny having flashbacks, so it's just what Danny remembers of her. Torture will be involved! You have been warned! Read on!

Chapter 10- Fear

What is fear? It is instinct, a reaction to something like pain or a threat. It usually takes you by surprise. It is impossible to get rid of completely, even if you think it is gone. Fear is also a powerful weapon. It can cause someone to do something against their will, as long as there is something to be feared.

As Danny was being sucked into the thermos he felt all that fear coming back to him in waves. The months in that horrible place, the tests, the pain, the torture. Danny didn't see who sucked him up, making him more scared. Who was it? The GIW? He didn't want to go back to that place. He thought he was free, but now he realized that he was destine for this. People feared ghosts, they always would. He would have never been accepted in Jump City anyways. What was he thinking? That he could team up with the local heroes?

The empty darkness surrounded Danny. The feeling of being caught again brought back painful memories. Very painful memories…

FLASHBACK

Danny wobbled down the white hallways. His vision slipped in and out. The sounds around him seemed muffled and distant. He wasn't sure if he was alone or not, but he was being led somewhere. Danny stumbled around a corner and the door in front of him opened seemingly by itself. Danny was shoved into the room and fell onto the ground. He couldn't get up as he watched the door close. He couldn't move as the darkness surrounded him. He was tired after his first day. So, so tired…

"You'll never get away with this." Danny said. He was bound to another examination table in another white room. The agent in front of him grinned. "Away with what? We're just doing some research." She grinned and stuck the cutting knife into the table, right next to Danny's head. "It's like dissecting a frog." She put her hands on her hips. "Except no one cares about you getting hurt." Danny glared at the lady. "You're wrong. Someone WILL come for me." Agent Z laughed at the statement. She pulled the knife out of the table and spun it around in her hands. She walked around the room while she talked. "Don't you get it FREAK? You're just a ghost. A creature that only exists to be feared. Who would want to rescue something like you?"

Danny shook his head in denial. "No. I will get out of here. Just you wait." Agent Z turned around and laughed again. "Those angry eyes are getting a little old, aren't they?" She put the knife down and looked at the other tools on the table. "Do you remember the first time?" She suddenly asked him. Danny frowned. "…What?" Agent Z lifted up a syringe and examined the liquid inside. "It was only a month ago, but we've been filling you up with so many drugs to test your reactions to them… I thought you needed a little reality check." She grabbed Danny's forearm and injected the liquid into him. That explained Danny's fragments of memory. It explained the drowsiness he felt… But had he really been there for a month?

"She's just trying to mess with me." Danny said from the corner of his prison. He didn't remember how he got there, but he remembered the conversation with Agent Z. "There's no way I've been here a month. Maybe a week or two, but not a whole moth. They wouldn't leave my like this… They wouldn't…" Danny curled up on the ground. Why would he think like that? They never gave up on him. "They have to be trying. They are trying and I'm sure of it."

"AHHHHH!" Danny's back arched into the air. Electricity was being run throughout his entire body. When it finally stopped Danny's body fell back onto the table with a thud. He kept his eyes closed. His chest quickly rose and fell. He didn't want to see them flip the switch again. He didn't want to expect it. Someone grabbed his head and tilted it to the side. Danny slowly opened his eyes and saw Agent Z smiling at him. "How are you feeling?" She asked. Danny didn't say anything.

Agent Z put her hands on her hips and frowned. "We really need to do something about those angry eyes." She walked over to the door and left. Danny ignored the other scientists still in the room and stared at the ceiling. "…Why?" He muttered. "What did I do wrong?"

Danny sat in his room facing the wall. His dim aura lit the space around him. He wrote the names of his friends and family on the wall. "They will come…" He traced over Sam's name. "They'll get me out of here…"

Danny was shoved into an empty white room and the steel doors behind him shut. He looked around and wondered what was going on. Was this his new room? Danny put his hand on the wall and he was shocked. "Ouch!" Danny slowly backed up into the center of the room. About ten minutes later Danny started to find it harder to breathe. "Is this room airtight?" He asked himself.

Danny eyed the door and charged towards it, hoping to knock it down, but the door shocked him back onto the ground. "I've got to stop doing that." He mumbled to himself. Danny stayed on the ground and watched as everything around him started to spin. "They won't let me die." He decided. "They kidnapped me for a reason…" The world around Danny started to go dark. "They wouldn't let me die…" He only hoped he was right.

Danny groaned. He had a splitting headache for some reason and he couldn't move. He looked down at his side and saw that his limbs weren't attached to the table. Danny tried moving them, but they felt like lead. "You should stop fighting against it." Agent Z said. Danny slowly shook his head. "Why is it always you? Why are you always standing there when I wake up?"

Agent Z smiled. "I was the one who captured you, so it's my right to do my own tests on you." Danny couldn't believe what he was hearing. "I'm a person." He growled. "Not someone's prize." The agent shook her head. "But you are not a person. You are not even human. Your only purpose in our living life is to scare, but I've changed that." Danny was getting worried. She sounded crazy! "You're crazy!" He shouted. Agent Z smirked. "Today we're going to see how long you can go without food. Along with that and the drugs preventing you from moving, you should be begging for freedom in nine hours." Danny tried to get up again, but he still couldn't get anywhere. "See you in a couple hours, Phantom."

Danny paced his room while he shook. Each step he took left a puddle of water. He hugged himself to try and get warmer. Earlier that day they had trapped him in a box filled to the brim with arctic cold water. Normally his ghost core could handle the cold just fine, but this water was on the brink of freezing then and there. Danny was lucky he wasn't frozen in a huge chunk of ice right now.

Danny glanced over at the wall with the names. He got on his knees and put a hand over the stains. He pressed his forehead against the wall. "Please come soon."

After another experiment Danny was shoved into his room, bleeding, and left alone in the dark. Danny took off his gloves and wiped the green blood onto them. He glanced over at the wall of names and frowned. "Each day the experiments get more painful." He whispered. Suddenly his sadness became anger. "Agent Z was right!" He threw his gloves at the wall. "You don't care for a ghost like me!" But weren't they his friends, his family? How could they not care? Agent Z was getting to him. "I'll wait, but not forever. I can't."

Danny looked beside the names and saw something else written on it, but he didn't write anything there. Danny got on his knees and put a bare hand over the word. "Hope?" He read. Danny found himself tracing over the word. He didn't know where it came from, but he definitely needed some hope.

Danny lay on another examination table. He was panting heavily. He just wanted it to stop. He wanted the pain to just stop. "Do you know how long it's been now?" Agent Z asked him. Danny slowly shook his head. "Far too long for anyone to care about you anymore." Danny didn't want to believe her. He didn't want it to be true, but they hadn't come like he thought they would. "…No" Danny quietly said. He was starting to believe her, but he didn't want to.

She smiled down at Danny. "But it's true. It's been months. No one cares about a freak like you. They would have come a long time ago if they did." Danny slowly shook his head back and forth. "…You are wrong…" Z put her hands on her hips. "I thought you might still think that." She said. The agent then turned around. "Throw the switch." She told the scientists at the control board. Danny's eyes widened and he struggled against the bonds.

Danny felt the tingling from the metal holding down his wrists. He braced himself for the shock, but he was never ready. "AHHHHH!" His back arched once again and he only wanted the pain to stop. Suddenly it did. His back fell to the table again and he took in huge gasps of air. He turned his head and weakly glared at Agent Z. She smiled. "No more angry eyes? Good." She walked out of the room and left Danny all alone. He would do anything to stop the pain.

Danny didn't want to talk. He didn't want to do anything. He sat alone in his room and stared at the names. "I thought you cared." He knew they didn't. They just thought he was a freak. Something that was supposed to never happen. Who would want that?

He was done. He didn't care anymore. It became routine now. Danny would have Agent K led him to a room; he would experience something very painful, and then went back to his cell. That was the way things were going, and the way he thought things would go forever. He couldn't escape and had to do what he was told. All hopes of his rescue had been filled by betrayal. Danny Phantom had finally been broken.

Oh Danny! I'm sorry for writing that! Agent Z is incredibly…not nice. In the next chapter you'll learn who sucked Danny up, so that's something to look forward too. I know this one was really short, but I MIGHT have time to put the next chapter up next week because I feel bad for not telling you and making this chapter so short. But we'll just have to see if I have time or not. I hope I can though! :D (By the way, who do you think wrote 'Hope' to Danny? I wanna know who you think and why! You can tell me in the reviews.) Thanks for reading. ;)