Sam and Tucker ran to the park as quickly as possible. There were so many ghosts out and about, it was like when the Ghost King was released. And yet there was no sign of Danny Phantom. Jazz texted them to explain what had happened and that Kim Possible was helping. A quick web search cleared up any questions they had on who Kim was. Sam and Tucker pulled out their "borrowed" Fenton weapons and began to fight. Sam's wrist ray and Tucker's Fenton lipstick. If Danny wasn't around to keep these ghosts in control, they'd do it.
Ron ran up the stairs to the roof and saw Drakken watching Kim and Shego fighting. Ron knew that they needed to keep Drakken here. If he saw there was something wrong with his mind control, then they would be screwed if he repaired anything the Tweebs did. Ron ran over to Drakken and did what he did best, ask questions.
"Drakken, what made you think of ghosts, I mean didn't getting possessed put you off?" Ron asked sounding unimpressed. He knew from experience that the mad scientist would leap at the chance to prove his brilliance.
"Oh actually, that made me see how powerful ghosts are. Especially after a little chat with an expert," Drakken answered cockily.
"Expert? The Fentons?" Ron asked genuinely confused. Drakken cackled.
"No buffoon, Freakshow. He used to control ghosts with a crystal ball," Drakken contradicted.
"Crystal ball? Yeah, I'm not feeling it. You Rufus?" Ron replied and Rufus scurried to his shoulder and shook his head sounding like he said, ""Nuh uh".
Jim and Tim ran into the main room of the warehouse. It was badly lit. However they didn't need a lot of light to see a bright, swirling green portal. Using that as a guide the twins ran forward, guessing that the mind control machine was close by. Suddenly a blast fired where their feet would've been if they were half a step faster. A warning shot to stay back. The twins fell back onto the floor and looked up to see Danny Phantom floating slightly above the ground, eyes glowing a blood red.
"Er...Danny?" Jim ventured. Danny didn't respond. The twins stood up and glanced at each other. Jim ran to the machine behind Danny and Tim ran up to Danny and tried to distract him.
"Danny! Over here! Come on I'm over here!" Tim shouted, vaguely thinking that Ron was a much better distraction. Phantom turned to Tim and then suddenly there were two Dannys. One lunged at Jim and the other at Tim.
"Jim! Watch out!" Tim screamed, caught completely off guard when Danny duplicated himself. Tim jumped to the ground and Danny sailed over him. Jim jumped to the side and Danny phased through the machine harmlessly.
Jim spun to see the two Dannys merge again and turned to look at Jim.
"Hicka bicka boo?!" Jim shouted to Tim. Tim looked up and nodded.
"Hoo sha," he agreed.
"Danny we know you're in there. You fought off the mind control once, you can do it again. We believe in you. You're not a bad ghost," Jim called to Danny. Danny froze for a split second but he lunged at Jim and pinned him to the ground and raised his hand, glowing with a ghost ray, to fire at Jim point blank.
"Danny! Stop! You're not evil!" Tim screamed desperately but suddenly a spark of green energy erupted from the Spectre Deflector. Danny stumbled back, off of Jim. But during the spark, Danny's eyes flickered for a split second back to his friendly green. Jim saw it and gave Tim a meaningful glance. They were getting through to Danny.
"Danny listen to me. You managed to throw Drakken's mind control off before. We looked at that machine and it was powerful," Jim began. Tim approached from behind.
"That just proves that you're just as strong as anything Drakken can make," Tim continued.
"You can do it Danny," Jim encouraged him.
"You did it before, just do what you did then," Tim added. Danny landed on the ground and looked pained. His eyes flashing between red and green so fast that it was impossible to tell which was winning.
"There are ghosts attacking Amity Park, you're home. You need to stop them," Jim informed him.
"You're not just any ghost Danny," Tim ventured desperately. Danny froze again and he turned to Tim and his eyes blazed bright green for a full second before returning to the previous battle.
Tim realised he said something to bring back the Danny they needed.
"You're not just any ghost Danny, we can tell," Tim continued, hoping he could improvise enough to bring the ghost back. He jerked his head to Jim who nodded and ran back to the machine. Danny's eyes changed to green again for another second.
"Er… we could tell the moment we met you. The Fentons are wrong about you. Well Maddie and Jack are. We know that Jazz isn't," Tim decided to say.
"Jazz?" Danny asked weakly and his eyes changed green again. Fiercely and bright. He backed away from Jim while he had control. Tim noticed the change.
"Yeah! She's er… with Maddie and Jack now. Trying to protect you. So you need to fight Drakken's mind control and help get rid of the other ghosts," Tim recalled, having overheard Kim's conversation. Danny nodded and his green eyes glowed brighter still and he backed further away from Jim. Jim took his opportunity to shut down the machine. With a few buttons and a few switches, the machine powered down.
I'll confirm that the twins don't know Danny's secret, they've just said things to remind Danny that he's only half ghost…
Until the next chapter.