The bare wires against his skin stung a little but it was hardly noticeable.
"So, how come Vlad is… well Vlad and you're you?" Ron asked suddenly after ten minutes of waiting. Danny frowned in confusion.
"What was the question?" Danny replied.
"I mean, why is Vlad evil and you're not?" Ron attempted again. Danny gave a slight nod of understanding.
"Not sure completely. But my guess is because my accident and Vlad's were different. Mine was from exposure to clean ecto-energy. Vlad's exposure wasn't," Danny suggested.
"How can ecto-energy be clean?" Kim questioned with a frown.
"Vlad used to go to college with my parents. They made a small ghost portal and when they were about to turn it on, my dad… he makes mistakes a lot, well he put diet soda in the machine instead of ecto-purifier. Vlad got blasted and ended up in hospital with ecto-acne and after that I guess he found out about his powers and used them to become very rich. My accident was with a fully functioning portal. Dad just hadn't turned it on so it didn't work," Danny explained with a shrug.
"Ecto-acne?" The twins questioned with a raised eyebrow. Danny nodded seriously.
"Much more dangerous than it sounds. Vlad gave it to Sam and Tucker once. It nearly killed them. Seriously the moment this is all over. I'm gunna find Vlad and-" Danny replied, getting angry just thinking about Vlad.
"Enough of that! I won't have you talking so violently around my sons," Mrs. Possible warned. Danny cleared his throat.
"Sorry. Let's just say, Vlad is going to regret causing this situation," Danny concluded, suitably scolded.
Mr. Possible looked at his watch.
"Danny, try turning your other arm invisible. We need to check if the Shockers have all moved to your arm yet," Mr. Possible suggested. Danny nodded and turned his right arm invisible. No pain. Danny smiled broadly.
"It's working. Hang on. Let me try something else," Danny announced and suddenly his whole body apart from his left arm turned invisible.
"Yeah, there's no pain. They must all be in my arm now," Danny's disembodied voice informed them all and he became visible once again.
"Great. Now the trickier part. We're going to use a magnet and the frequency to attract the Shockers out of your arm when you turn it intangible. The Shockers should still react the same way even when intangible right?" Tim informed them with a slight shrug. Ghost powers weren't their specialty. Danny nodded.
"They should do. But I'll try to avoid making them intangible too," Danny replied, returning to his serious expression. This was the tricky part and it was bound to be the most painful too. All the Spectral Shockers were in his arm, which meant all the pain throughout his body during the times he turned his entire body intangible would be concentrated in his one arm.
Mr. Possible handed the twins a magnet each and Jim and Tim positioned themselves over Danny's arm. They nodded to him. Danny took a deep breath and turned his arm intangible and hissed involuntarily as excruciating pain erupted in his arm, particularly around the wires on his fore arm. It took Danny a second to refocus himself on the task and redirected his intangibility away from his entire arm and avoided the Spectral Shockers instead. The Shockers immediately began to flow through Danny's intangible skin and to the magnets above. The pain lessened until it vanished entirely. Without a spoken cue, Danny continued the tangibility for a few extra seconds before returning it to normal.
He grinned.
"Thanks Jim, Tim. Sorry for being so hard on you last night," Danny apologised to the twins as they removed the magnets from Danny's vicinity.
"No, it was our fault. We should have checked with you first," Jim contradicted softly. Danny got up out of his seat and with a brief pause, willed for the band of light to appear around his waist. Mrs. Possible and Mr. Possible watched in awe as the boy in front of them changed from a normal teenager to Danny Phantom. His clothes changed into a black and white jumpsuit with a logo on his chest. His eyes turned to a piercing unnatural green and his hair a brilliant white. His body glowed softly. Even though Danny had transformed during the experimentation, Mr. Possible didn't actually see the teen as he was too busy. Therefore, this was the first time Kim's parents saw Danny Phantom. He sighed happily and relieved.
And finally Danny can change and use his powers without being tortured.
Until the next chapter.