Danny slowly opened his eyes to find himself looking up at Mrs. Possible.
"Danny? How do you feel?" she asked, noticing that he was awake. He smiled weakly and gave a shrug.
"I've felt worse. Thanks though," Danny answered gratefully as he pushed himself into a sitting position.
"You should take it easy," Mrs. Possible tried to object but Danny shook his head.
"I don't have the time to be taking it easy. Besides I'm fine. Believe me. I once got hit by lightning and walked away from it," Danny assured the doctor. Mrs. Possible looked doubtful but didn't protest and Danny got to his feet. He had been lying on the ground beside the machine he'd been in not twenty minutes ago.
"Danny, we're really sorry for pushing you like that," Tim apologised from across the room, having seen Danny getting up. Danny waved a hand dismissively.
"It's fine. I pushed myself, not you. Did you at least get what you needed?" Danny replied as he walked over to the twins, Mr. Possible and Kim and Ron looking at a computer. He was a little unsteady on his feet but he managed to keep his balance. Despite what he said to Mrs. Possible, being electrocuted from the inside hurt a lot more than being hit by Vortex's lightning, and that had hurt a lot.
"We think so. We're just trying to figure out how to short circuit them all without, you know, having to physically get to them all," Jim informed Danny as he reached their group.
"I could try turning everything but them intangible," Danny suggested. The twins looked to each other nervously.
"We don't want you to pass out again," Tim retorted. Danny smiled gently.
"I'll be fine, I won't try it everywhere first time. Just my hand," Danny reassured them.
Mrs. Possible joined the group.
"I'm not sure you should be doing anything like that right now, Danny. You look exhausted and weak," Mrs. Possible interjected sternly. Danny glanced at her.
"I have to try. My friends and family are counting on me," He replied determinedly.
"Hicka bicka boo?" Jim asked his brother. Tim shrugged.
"Hoo sha," He answered cautiously. They nodded to each other.
"We could try to track one and try it with that. If it doesn't work, then we don't try again. Fair enough?" Jim suggested. Danny nodded.
"If it'll help, I'll try it," he assured them.
Within a few minutes, the twins hooked up an ultrasound and metal detector to Danny's right arm and waited for the devices to register a Spectral Shocker. They waited and suddenly there was a beep and a shape appeared on the ultrasound. Without waiting for confirmation, Danny turned his arm intangible and focused hard on not turning the Shocker intangible. His arm instantly flared up in pain from being shocked. The ultrasound and metal detector fell through Danny's arm and clattered to the ground. Danny immediately stopped his intangible act and slumped in the chair the Possibles and Ron found him.
"Did it work?" Danny asked anxiously. The disappointed faces shook their heads. However suddenly a beep came from the metal detector. Ron picked it up and shook it and shrugged.
"Probably broke when it fell," Ron suggested but whistling and frantic chattering from Rufus alerted Ron to a tiny speck on the ground. Rufus picked it up and held it up to Tim. Tim took the speck, the size of a large grain of salt, and held it up to the light.
"Hicka bicka boo?" Jim asked excitedly. Tim glanced at his brother and ran to a microscope on a desk and placed the speck on a slide and checked it.
"Hoo sha!" Tim agreed victoriously. "And that means?" Ron prompted the twins irritably. It was no secret that their secret language annoyed Ron.
"It worked," the twins chorused.
A way to get rid of the Spectral Shockers surfaces… let me know what you think of the story so far.
Until the next chapter.
