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Here's chapter 13 everybody.
Chapter 13: Hertha's True Plans.
Almost everyone at Fenton Works was fast asleep, with only Dani, Jazz, Sam, Tucker and Valerie awake. Dani couldn't sleep as she worries about a potential Harvester attack and waiting for Danny to come back from his patrol, which he started an hour ago. Suddenly, everyone heard a noise coming from the living room, as if someone knock down the front door. Everyone ran up to see Danny, in his Human form, dragging a unconscious Harvester ghost.
"Danny?" Dani asked.
"Dani, wake everyone up. Valerie open the containment cell quickly. I gotta get this Harvester in there before it regains consciousness." Danny said.
"On it, Danny." Valerie said.
Valerie goes to open a glass containment cell in the lab where Danny sets the unconscious Harvester in. Once the cell is locked up, Valerie activates a ecto-shield to prevent the Harvester from escaping with its intangibility. Meanwhile, Dani went to the guest room to wake up young Danny, young Tucker, Andrew and Dale.
"Guys, wake up." Dani said, shaking young Danny and Dale on the main bed, and young Tucker and Andrew on the inflatable bed.
"Huh?" young Tucker said tiredly, sitting up.
"Dani?" young Danny said tiredly before remembering where he's at. "Oh, right, alternate universe."
"What's going on? What time is it?" Andrew asked tiredly.
"One in the morning. Get up, something happen." Dani said.
"Can we at least get five more minutes?" Dale asked tiredly as Dani leaves to head to Jazz's old room.
Dani then went to Jazz's old room to wake up Dayla, young Sam, young Valerie and young Dani.
"Ladies, wake up." Dani said, shaking Dayla, young Sam, young Valerie and young Dani.
"Dani? What's going on?" Dayla asked tiredly.
"Dani, it's one in the morning." young Sam said tiredly.
"Give us five more minutes, older me." young Dani said tiredly.
"Not when there's something down at the lab. Get up." Dani said.
A few moments later, the alternate Team Phantom, as well as Jack, Maddie, Jacob, Venus and Sierra wakes up and all went down to the lab. The alternate Team Phantom were surprised to see a captured Harvester ghost in the containment cell.
"So, that ghost is a Harvester?" young Dani asked.
"Yeah." Dani replied.
"Odd looking ghost." Dale said.
"What happen at your patrol, Danny?" Jack asked.
"Okay, I was doing a routine ghost patrol until I saw a commotion taking place at the park where I saw some odd looking ghost device earlier and a police barricade surrounding it. I went to check it out and saw a single Harvester ghost attacking the police officers there. I went to attack the Harvester, we got into a ecto-fight, I somehow managed to knock the Harvester unconscious with a single punch." Danny said.
"So, why didn't you destroy it?" Maddie asked.
"Well, I thought about destroying the Harvester there, but then I thought, 'why not take it back to Fenton Works quickly and interrogate it. Maybe it can provide us information on Hertha's harvest plans for Earth'." Danny explained.
"Good idea, Danny." Valerie said.
"Wait, what odd-looking ghost device?" Dani asked.
"While you were gone, Sam, Tucker and Valerie discovered some odd-looking device at the park. Here's a picture of it." Jazz said as she uploads a picture of the odd cylindrical device with claw like arms that are dug deep in the soil.
"What is that?" Dani asked.
"We don't know. Hopefully, we'll get info when the Phantom Blasters comes back." Jazz said.
"While we wait, Dani, explain to everyone what happen?" Danny said.
"Okay, I didn't tell some of you, but now you all are here, let me explain what happen." Dani said. "Okay, so, I went to the Ghost Zone to investigate for any Harvester sightings before heading to Clockwork's. There, I encountered the Harvester's queen, Queen Hertha. We fought each other, but she got the best of me. She's really powerful. To ensure that I don't get in her way, she threw me into that alternate universe that Danny and I have been watching ever since Dan's and Dana's defeat. Then I met the alternate Team Phantom. Now before I got thrown into the alternate universe, five medallions got send to that universe as well while a sixth ended up around my neck. I had to go to five different cities to recover the medallions before coming back here. The alternate Team Phantom wanted to help. I said no at first, but they said they would have followed me regardless. So, we help and defeated a couple of ghosts and recover the medallions, and now here we are. Also, she knows about our family, Grandpa Fenton, everything. She also said that and I quote, 'Now I will make sure you, your family and those pathetic and weak Humans and ghosts of this dimensional plane suffer at the hands of my harvest.' unquote." Dani said.
"Well, whatever she meant by that, she needs to be stop." Danny said.
"I agree. Whatever she's up to or whatever she meant by that, it can't be good." Dayla said.
Suddenly, the Harvester inside the cell wakes up. The first thing it sees are both Team Phantom and alternate Team Phantom. The Harvester screeched before trying to escape, but couldn't. Everyone continue to look at the captured Harvester as it continued to screeched loudly while scratching the glass in an attempt to escape its prison.
"So, how are we suppose to interrogate it if it doesn't speak vocally?" Sam asked.
Dani then remember what young Danny and Dayla told her about one of their powers on one of their Fenton Jets flights back at the alternate universe.
"Dayla, young Danny, you have telepathy powers, right?" Dani asked.
"Yeah, Danny and I can talk to each other through our minds. Why do you ask?" Dayla replied.
"Well, since Danny and I don't have that capability, you think your telepathy powers can help you two hear the Harvester 'speak'?" Dani asked, airing quotations with her fingers.
"Yeah, maybe you two can find out what Hertha and the Harvesters are planning for Earth since Hertha craves for its resources. After all, she can communicate both vocally and telepathically, but the Harvesters themselves can only communicate through telepathy." Danny said.
"I don't know. We've never done anything such as communicating with anyone else using our telepathy before." Dayla said.
"Dayla and I can give it a try. It's worth a shot. It'd be sort like our ice powers, letting the energy build until it has nowhere to go but out." young Danny said.
Young Danny and Dayla look at the Harvester before they approached the glass as the Harvester inside continued to swipe at it. Young Danny and Dayla looked at the Harvester once more and began to concentrate hard, focusing on pushing their energy into their telepathic powers towards the mind of the Harvester.
"Stop!" young Danny and Dayla shouted in their minds.
The Harvester looks at young Danny and Dayla as they start using their telepathy powers.
"Can you hear us?" Dayla asked to the Harvester telepathically.
"You can communicate and hear me through telepathy? Release me!" the Harvester said telepathically.
"Fat chance, we want to ask you questions and you're gonna answer them whether you want to or not." young Danny said telepathically.
"What is your leader planning? What does Hertha want with Earth so much?" Dayla asked telepathically.
"Resources, your planet's air, water, all resources. Same for its Ghost Zone dimensional plane, Human." the Harvester replied telepathically.
"What makes you think you and your queen can get to our planet and its resources?" young Danny asked telepathically.
"Because we have done it before. Before, we have harvested many worlds and their Ghost Zone dimensional planes for thousands of years, and now here! My comrades will make sure of that for our queen TODAY! Long live Queen Hertha!" the Harvester replied telepathically.
Young Danny and Dayla looked at each other, having no idea what the Harvester meant by many worlds. The two look back at the Harvester once more.
"Well your queen has one problem, we're currently using our planet. What is it you want us Humans and the Ghost Zone's inhabitants to do?" Dayla asked telepathically.
"DIE!" the Harvester replied.
The Harvester then starts to use its telepathy powers to mind fry young Danny and Dayla, but at the same time, uses them to also mind fry Dani and Danny. The four hears a high-pitched sound before they feel a ache and started to groan before they lunged themselves to the ground in pain.
"AHHH!" Danny, Dani, young Danny and Dayla screamed in pain.
Everyone's eyes widened in shock and they immediately rushed, checking on them wondering what is happening that is causing them so much pain as they could see them clutching their heads.
"Dayla, young Danny." Tucker said, trying to help but gets no response.
"Danny, Danielle!" Maddie said in concern, but gets no response.
"What's happening to them?!" Andrew asked in concern as he knelt down beside Dayla, concerned and terrified for his girlfriend. Young Sam did the same thing and knelt beside young Danny worried and also terrified for her boyfriend.
"I don't know." Jacob said in concern as he knelt down beside Dani, worried and terrified for his girlfriend. Sam did the same thing and knelt beside Danny, worried and also terrified for her boyfriend.
As Danny, Dani, young Danny and Dayla tries to fight the Harvester's telepathy attack, they manage to see visions from the Harvester and saw something horrible. They first saw Hertha leading the Harvesters on their harvests on many other alien worlds and its respective Ghost Zone dimensional planes thousands of years ago and slaughtered many other alien races and their ghost counterparts to extinction while Hertha grins with pure evil at her successes. They then use odd looking cylindrical devices with claw like arms that are dug deep in the soil to extract many resources, including air and water, to the point of the aliens planets that they have harvest to become dead, and destroying its Ghost Zone dimensional planes. They then see Hertha and the Harvesters plan for Earth and look in horror. They first see the Harvesters and Hertha slaughtering the entire Human race, including Team Phantom, and the ghosts at the Ghost Zone to extinction. They then saw the Earth in space. Suddenly, they saw the Earth's atmosphere and the water disappearing, becoming dead and exposed to the hostile environment of outer space, and its Ghost Zone dimensional plane becomes destroyed. A global extinction level event!
Meanwhile, Jacob, Sam, Andrew and young Sam were trying to tend to Dani, Danny, Dayla and young Danny while the others look on. Dani then grabs Jacob's shirt and looks at him while still groaning in pain.
"Jacob, kill it!" Dani said, groaning in pain.
Jacob immediately grabbed the Fenton Railgun and aim at the Harvester before firing a projectile through the glass and striking the Harvester. The Harvester exploded into ectoplasm, ending the telepathy attack. Dani, Danny, young Danny and Dayla breathe heavily before getting up and clinging to their heads.
"We saw what the Harvesters are planning to do?" Dani said in horror.
"We all did." Dayla said in horror as well.
The images of what they saw kept playing in Dani's, Danny's, Dayla's and young Danny's heads.
"Let's head upstairs and get you four some aspirin and then we'll talk." Maddie said.
A few minutes later they went to the living room. After giving Danny, Dani, young Danny and Dayla some medication to help with their headache from almost having their brains fried, young Danny and Dayla were ready to tell everyone what happened when they were using their telepathy to communicate with the Harvester.
"The Harvester said that they came to Earth to harvest its resources from water to air and its Ghost Zone dimensional plane. That's when it used its own telepathic abilities to try and fry mine's, Dayla's, older Danny's, and older Dani's brains and kill us which explains why were were screaming and in so much pain." young Danny explained.
"During that time, Danny, older Danny, older Dani and I saw visions of Hertha and the Harvesters travelling to other planet's Ghost Zone dimensional planes through natural portals which leads to the worlds they are connected to and what we saw was... so... horrible!" Dayla continued.
"We watched as Hertha and the Harvesters slaughtered many aliens and inhabitants of both the planet and their ghost counterparts while she grins with pure evil. They then harvest the planets resources until the planet died along with its Ghost Zone dimensional plane since if the planet dies so does the Ghost Zone of that alien world. They have been doing this for thousands of years." Danny continued.
"We then saw a vision of Earth if Hertha succeeds. She will kill everyone on this planet along with the ghosts in the Ghost Zone and ourselves, we didn't see alternate Team Phantom though, and then she and the Harvesters will be free to harvest the planet's resources, using devices like the one at the park, until it is dead along with the Ghost Zone. Worst, they're planning it in few hours, in other words, today." Dani finished.
Everyone stood there in silence for a few moments completely shocked by what they just heard.
"This... this is all... so horrible! This is practically genocide!" young Sam said, breaking the silence.
"No, it's not just genocide... It's extinction." Danny said.
So unless we stop Hertha and her army does that mean…." young Valerie began to ask but couldn't finish the sentence.
"It will mean the end of the world and life as we know it." Dani finished.
Young Valerie's eyes widened in complete horror and young Tucker hugged her close to comfort her. Young Danny stood up and hugged Sam close.
"The future is not set in stone. We're gonna stop them. We're not gonna let the Earth die." young Danny said.
"I have to agree." Dani said.
"That device at the park, can you destroy it?" Danny asked.
"We tried to take it out of the ground, but we got shock from touching it." Sam said.
"Seems that Hertha will do anything to make sure we don't ruin her harvest plans." Dani said.
"If Hertha strips all of the Earth's resources, the oceans, the atmosphere, will all be gone." Venus said.
"And the Earth will be exposed to the hostile environment of outer space." Sierra said.
"And she probably knows that we know about her at this point." Jacob said.
"Yeah, but she doesn't know about us though." Andrew said, gesturing to young Danny, Dayla, young Dani, Dale, young Sam, young Tucker, young Valerie and himself.
"And she probably thinks that I'm still at the alternate universe." Dani said.
"That's true." Valerie said.
"What do we do now?" Jazz asked.
"Valerie, you're gonna have to make a stop to Minneapolis and get Mr. Mitchell." Danny said.
"Who's that?" Dayla asked.
Jack then uploads two pictures on the monitor, one showing a black and white photo of Tommy when he was a young man, and another picture of an elderly Tommy.
"He's a family friend. Tommy Mitchell was a Fenton Works assistant back in the 1940s and a good friend of my father, Sam's grandparents and myself. Had an interest in the paranormal and Ghost Zone like Maddie and I. He, along with my dad and Sam's grandparents, especially her grandfather, has experience fighting the Harvesters back in 1948. And I have to agree with Danny in getting him here. He can help us since, like I said, he has experience fighting the Harvesters." Jack said.
"But dad, he only has experience in fighting the Harvesters. He doesn't know about their lair, Hertha, their technology. Heck, he didn't know about the latter two till last year, and he just turned 93 years old. The only person in this world who knows about the Harvesters, the Keep, their technology, and Hertha more than anyone else, even Mr. Mitchell, is Doctor Bauer." Danny said.
"Danny, we've been looking for the guy for 11 months, we found nothing." Dani said.
"Actually, that's no longer the case." Jazz said.
"What are you talking about?" Dani asked.
"We have a possible sighting on Doctor Bauer in Warsaw, Poland. Danielle, Danny, I mentioned before that the Phantom Blasters were on a mission, but I said I would tell you later what it was. Well, the Phantom Blasters are on a mission to capture Manfred Bauer as we speak." Jazz said.
"Oh, good." Dani said.
"Excellent. Despite that he's a crazed up fruitloop, we need him. He's the only person that can help us in how to defeat Hertha and the Harvesters." Danny said. "Oh, one more thing, despite that I'm now here, because Dani brought the alternate Team Phantom, she will remain in charge, of both teams, until this whole situation is over."
"You want me to go to Minneapolis and get Mr. Mitchell, Danny?" Valerie asked.
"Yes, you better get there now, we have a few hours until they strike. This will be my last order. Dani is now in charge." Danny said.
"On it." Valerie said before leaving Fenton Works.
"What do we do now?" young Danny asked.
"Now, we wait." Dani said.
It was already morning in Warsaw Poland. At a outdoor food market, one American man was looking through the food that was on display. He had fair skin, hazel eyes, short brown hair and grew some facial hair. He was wearing black shoes, a pair of jeans, a black jacket, which underneath it, he is wearing a blue long sleeved shirt with a black undershirt beneath it. He's also wearing a black baseball cap and carrying a backpack on his back. It was Doctor Manfred Bauer, the former Fenton Works scientist from the 1940s who kidnapped Ida Manson and became Harry Fenton's enemy in 1948 before being teleported to the Keep of the Ghost Zone by the Tetrahedron ghostly artifact that contained the Reality Gem of Infinity and spend 69 years there before returning to Earth 11 months ago and allied with Dan and Dana Phantom to take down the Fentons, especially Danny and Dani. During the Ghost Battle of Washington D.C., Manfred confronted Danny and Dani a second time, only for him to get knocked unconscious by the Phantom Twins themselves. However, before the JTTF can capture him, Manfred managed to regain consciousness and witness Dan and Dana get defeated by Danny and Dani before he escapes the battle zone. Before leaving the country, Manfred vowed revenge on Team Phantom, especially Danny and Dani, before he went into hiding. However, for the past 11 months, Manfred has been starting to have second thoughts as he tries to adjust to the modern age and continue to get caught up with all the history that has happen in the 69 years that he was gone. Manfred has been reading lots of history books in order to catch up with what has happen while he was gone and drawing lots of sketches that involves Hertha and the Harvesters. At the same time, he has been having second thoughts on whether having revenge on the Fentons is worth it, especially after hearing about the Dis-asteroid Incident and Team Phantom's successes after that, including reading a book that talks about his former friend. After everything he has been through and seen what the Harvesters can do, Manfred has been thinking if he should tell Team Phantom about what the Harvesters has done and what they have plan for Earth, which is why he drew some sketchings that involves them. He has come to accept that Hertha made him corrupted and made him did those murderous acts he did in 1948, including kidnapping Ida and betraying Harry, as well as siding Dan and Dana in order to get his revenge. He now wants nothing to do with Hertha, or ghosts in general, and rather live the rest of his life in peace now that he's back at Earth and see what the present, or rather future in his perspective, has to offer, even if he is a wanted man. Now 106 years old chronologically, but 37 years old biologically, Manfred has been hiding since Dan's and Dana's defeat and has been travelling from place-to-place before settling in Warsaw. He was currently shopping at a food market before he started to make his way back to his apartment, not knowing that Trevor was watching from a distance.
"Got eyes on the target, it's indeed Doctor Bauer." Trevor said.
"Roger that, Thrash. Download is already at his apartment." Victoria said through the comlink.
Manfred walked a good distance before reaching his apartment. It wasn't all fancy, but it wasn't too worn down. It was a single bedroom and bathroom apartment, had a small kitchen and a living room. On Manfred's table, there was many history books. Manfred went to the kitchen and put his food in the fridge. As he exits the kitchen, he suddenly got that feeling that he's not alone.
"Doctor Bauer." David called out from the living room.
Manfred closed his eyes and took a deep breath before turning around to face his former ally.
"Didn't think we would find you?" David asked.
Manfred didn't reply anything as he stood for a brief moment before he grabs his backpack, opens his front door and bolts out to escape.
"He's making a break for it." David said to Victoria and Trevor on the comlink as he runs to pursuit Manfred.
Manfred started to run down the stairwell before he exits out the building and started to run off in some random direction. David exit the building moments later and continue to pursue Manfred. Manfred ran as fast as he can, pushing people out of the way before he managed to cross a intersection before David gets block by the passing cars.
"Target is getting near the train station." David said.
Manfred continues to run, determine to escape. He then saw Trevor, who was staring at him. Manfred noticed the train station and sees a oncoming train. Manfred then takes a chance. He runs towards the station as Trevor chases after him. Manfred then jumps at the edge of the platform, over the tracks, and managed to land on the other end of the platform before the train passes by, stopping Trevor. Manfred then continues to run.
"Victoria, he's heading right towards you." Trevor said.
Manfred keeps running, until he is suddenly tackled by Victoria unexpectedly. Manfred groans in pain as Victoria aims her blaster at him.
"Good to see you, Doctor Bauer." Victoria said with a smirk.
Manfred gets up back to his feet before staring at Victoria. He looks back to see David and Trevor landing with their thrusters and pointing their blasters at him.
"If you all gonna put me in a cell, then you might as well give me my own cell." Manfred said as he raises his hands in surrender.
"Oh, we're not taking you to prison. We're taking you to Fenton Works. Team Phantom needs you as you have important information." Victoria said.
With that, the Phantom Blasters take Manfred before they boarded Team Phantom's own Quinjet and start flying back to Fenton Works.
And that's the end of this chapter. So, the scene with the Harvester and it's telepathy powers are inspired by the alien scene from the 1996 movie 'Independence Day'. I told you all before in the author's note in chapter 1 that the Harvesters themselves as well as their name, are inspired by the aliens from that movie, which they are also called Harvesters. Anyway, what will happen when Manfred arrives at Fenton Works and sees and meet alternate Team Phantom? What got in to come to his senses in the past 11 months since Dan and Dana's defeat? Will he help Team Phantom in stopping Hertha and the Harvesters? Find out next time in the next chapter. Don't forget to read mikaela2015's Phantom Twins series and her universe's perspective of this story The Phantom Twins: World's Collide. This is a collaboration story after all and there are scenes from that story that didn't appear here. Please review. :)