God Save The Queen Chapter 51: The Mutation

The Disasteroid Incident was an event that was very difficult to forget and as a result, was still fresh in the mind of many. Despite the amount of time that had passed, some people were still dealing with the aftermath of the global disaster that had been very narrowly avoided. One of those persons was none other than Guy in White operative and Major General Evelyn Olivier Mason. Known amongst the agency as the Guys In White's Iron Lady thanks to her cold, usually stoic demeanor that could become strong, harsh, and aggressive when the situation became serious as well as the fact that she was a woman with a powerful voice that commanded respect and obedience, Evelyn had a major chip on her shoulder. Following the revelation of Plasmius' half ghost status followed shortly afterwards by the reveal that Danny Phantom was a similar entity, there were many questions had been raised. What were half ghosts, how were they created, what abilities did they possess, and perhaps most importantly: how many were there?

These were questions that had been stuck in Evelyn's head ever since aforementioned revelations. Unfortunately, thanks to the shake up of the Guys in White and the chaos that ensued as well as the resultant rearranging and reordering that needed to be done, Evelyn never had the chance to pursue answers to these questions. However, with the Ira affair having been wrapped up two weeks ago and Vlad Masters in their custody, Evelyn finally had a chance to start getting a couple of answers.

As she walked down a long, cold hallway to the room where Vlad was currently being held, flanked by her trusted subordinates Agent Dio and Agent A, Evelyn wondered if the former ruler of Earth would be difficult to work with. Not that she cared. If Vlad refused to work with her, Evelyn could simply have him sent to the lab to be dissected and studied. That would certainly be a way to get the answers she seeked. Evelyn hoped it wouldn't come to that however since Vlad was the oldest known half ghost (or "halfa" as Danny Fenton and his friends referred to them) in existence and thus, would have the most experience with his abilities. Add in the fact that his previous wealth provided him with an almost endless amount of resources to study his own nature, trying to talk to Plasmius rather than cutting him up would likely yield the most results.

After about two minutes of walking down the hallway, Evelyn arrived at the room where Vlad was being held. The door to the room was secured and locked by way of a keypad, keycard scanner, fingerprint scanner, eyescanner, and voice recognition program. Just to be safe, two Guys in White, each wielding high powered plasma rifles stood guard diligently outside the door to make sure no one unauthorized could get in or out. Evelyn presented her ID to the guards before inputting the passcode, scanning her ID card, placing her finger on the scanner, presenting her pupil to the third scanner, and saying her name to be granted access to the room.

"Dio, Albert, stand down and assist your fellow operatives in standing guard" She told her subordinates as she looked through the glass window at Vlad before entering. Vlad was seated at a small metallic table, special cuffs on his hands that prevented him from using his powers. Instead of the tailor-made custom suits he was known to wear, Vlad was clad in a navy blue prison jumpsuit. "If Masters attempts to attack and proves to be too much trouble for me to deal with individually, you have full authorization to immediately intervene."

"Ma'am, yes Ma'am" Both Agents Dio and Albert responded, respectfully saluting and standing aside.

Vlad wore a nasty scowl as Evelyn entered the room and pulled up a seat on the opposite side of the table. Evelyn didn't pay it any mind however and simply shot her own scowl back at him. Evelyn intended to make it clear to Vlad that she wasn't going to be intimidated by him and that she was in charge.

"Alright Mr. Masters, I'm not going to waste your time, I'm going to cut right to the chase" Evelyn told him. "I have a couple of questions to ask you. You make this easy and cooperate or you can make things difficult and refuse to go along."

Vlad huffed in response and asked "And why would I answer any of your questions? You people essentially kidnapped me, denying me a fair trial, denying me due process, and overall have been holding me hostage for three weeks."

Evelyn chuckled and answered back "Oh please, every jury in the world would find you guilty and most judges would likely sentence you to death for your treasonous world endangering actions. You're lucky we got our hands on you instead of some other government agency. That being said, I have no problems having you hauled off to a lab to be ripped apart molecule by molecule if you insist on being defiant. Now you can make things easy for yourself and maybe in the future, I'll repay your compliance and pull a couple of strings to ensure you won't spend the rest of your life cooped up in here."

Vlad considered his options for a second. If there was one thing he hated, it was being subservient to someone else. Vlad refused to be anyone's pawn, but he definitely hated being locked up, stripped of everything, and humiliated even more. Even if it was only a maybe, any chance that he could eventually get out of this prison was welcome.

"Okay, I'll play along; what do you want to know?" Vlad asked.

"Nice to know you're not as stupid as you appear to be" Evelyn stated. She still wasn't willing to fully trust Vlad, knowing that the former billionaire could be deceptive and cunning. "As I mentioned before, you're the oldest living half ghost we have on record. If anyone would have useful knowledge on the anatomy of these hybrids, it would be you."

Vlad smiled and said "First thing you need to know is that there are far more half ghosts out there than just me Daniel"

"Is that so?" Asked Evelyn, intrigued. "Would you care to elaborate?"

"Gladly" Vlad replied before explaining. "Approximately three months before my mayoral campaign in Amity Park, following a confrontation with Daniel that resulted in my mansion being destroyed, I was forced to relocate to a quiet town in Florida known as New Haven-Cho. It was there that I encountered a 13 year old orphan boy with ghost powers. Needing an apprentice, I took him under my wing, training him on how to efficiently use his ghost powers. All went relatively well until he discovered my true manipulative nature. Things deteriorated from there, but once reconstruction of my mansion was complete, I returned to Wisconsin and began planning my revenge on Daniel and his friends."

"Interesting" Evelyn said. "Would you happen to still have the name of this youth?"

"The kid's name is Joseph Amadeus, by now he would be age 15" Vlad informed her. "Be warned as he is similar to Daniel in many ways, being crafty, cunning, and deternined to protect the ones he loves by all means. Which is also his weakness"

"How so?" Evelyn asked, scribbling down the teen's name.

"Just like Daniel, he has a significant other, a girlfriend by the name of McKenzie Pendleton" Vlad told her. "Like Joseph, she is an orphan and their bond is inseparable, a lesson I learned the hard way. Anyway, he'd do anything to keep her safe and that'll lead to his downfall"

Evelyn nodded as she jotted down notes. Vlad continued "You may be wondering why I'm mentioning all these details about this youth who is seemingly irrelevant to our conversation?"

"I'd be lying if I said otherwise" Evelyn confirmed.

"Well… before our falling out, I convinced the boy to give me a blood sample so that I could conduct a couple of tests and found something interesting" Vlad told her. "Something relating to the creation of halfas"

Evelyn's ears perked up as she pressed Vlad to continue. Vlad obliged.

"While studying Amadeus' blood, I discovered a genetic mutation within him that hadn't been seen before" Vlad said. "I then conducted an analysis of my own blood and discovered a very similar if not the same genetic mutation. Then, using a DNA sample from Daniel, I conducted yet another analysis and same as Amadeus and I, discovered a genetic mutation within him. This lead me to be conclusion that the reason I survived my incident with the ghost portal in my college years was due to this mutation. I theorize that this same mutation is the reason that Daniel survived his accident with his parents' portal."

"Do you have any idea what may be the cause of this mutation?" Evelyn asked, wanting to know more.

"Unfortunately, I have only a couple of theories to go on, the most prominent one being that the gene is brought on by constant exposure to ectoplasmic material." Vlad surmised. "However this is not a guarantee as despite their many years of exposure to the material, neither Jack, Maddie, or their offspring Jazzmine possess the mutation. Furthermore, I have no idea what causes the gene to trigger the transformation from human to half ghost. It could potentially be brought on by a near death experience which would certainly explain my transformation as well as Daniel's and even Samantha's"

"Hmm. Interesting" Evelyn said, having heard all she needed to hear for today. "I appreciate your cooperation today, Masters. I just need one more thing."

"And that is?" Vlad asked.

"I'm going to need a blood sample to send to the lab for analysis so that our team can conduct their own studies" Evelyn said, opening the door and gesturing for agents Dio and A to enter. Vlad complied and offered his blood for the agents to draw blood. "Agent Albert, I need you to drawa blood sample from Masters; meanwhile for you, Agent Dio, I need you conduct research on two teens reported to be living in New Haven-Cho Florida." She turned to Vlad and said "We'll pick up where we left off tomorrow" before leaving.

As she headed back to her office, she thought about some of the more unethical actions within her plan and wondered whether she'd be willing to cross that line or not. In the end however, Evelyn decided that it would ultimately be for the greater good and that even her more amoral actions would eventually be vindicated. Considering she was working with someone who could very well be considered a terrorist, it was a little bit too late for her to worry about going too far.

Within a couple of hours, Vlad's blood cell had been sent to a lab where a team of Guy in White scientists confirmed what Vlad had told them. There was a distinct gentic mutation within the half ghost's DNA that they surmised allowed him to survive his portal incident. With this knowledge, Evelyn contemplated her next move before deciding to follow up on Plasmius' second little tidbit of information. For right now however, she had other important matters to attend to. Taking the information Vlad had given her to mind, Evelyn began coming up with a plan that would affect both the human and ghost worlds.

In The Next Chapter:

The Mystery Ghost yanked the rocket launcher out of his hand using what appeared to be telekinesis and smashed it to pieces. The Mystery Ghost then shot a fireball at Skulker's face and faster than the eye could detected moved behind Skulker. His right hand ablaze with scarlet ghostly flames, The Mystery Ghost let out a cry of "Scarlet Phantom Punch!" Before drilling Skulker in the face with a brutal flaming punch. The punch ended up cracking Skulker's mask and gave Danny a chance to recover and take advantage of the opening by impaling Skulker from behind with a massive icicle. The move ended up disabling Skulker's suit and left the Ghost Hunter almost completely helpless.

I'm going to be honest, was not expecting to have anything posted for the month of February, but then I got a small spark of creativity and managed to finish 2 chapters. Anyway, this is the start of a new arc (and potentially the longest arc thus far) and was inspired by several things. The first was going back, rereading earlier chapters and realizing I didn't really offer up that much of an explanation as to why Sam survived Plasmius' attack on her and became a halfa rather than dying. The second was reading a somewhat popular fan theory that Danny is Vlad's illegitimate son and the result of a one night stand and that that is what allowed him to survive the portal incident that gave him his powers. I decided to take the theory that Danny's powers are genetic and put my own spin on it, minus the whole Danny is Vlad's son thing. Lastly, I read a couple of fanfics That revolved around the idea that Danny and Vlad were far from the only halfas in the world and decided to write my own version somewhat. As to just what Evelyn and the Guys in White are planning, you'll just have to wait and find out. Also, I may need a little help from you guys, the reader, in the future so keep your eyes peeled. Anyway, I've been Timothy D and I wish you a good day. Peace Out!