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I shook my head.
"No... no way." Mom looked confused at me.
"Why not? This is a good chance-" "Never!" I interrupted them.
"They attacked me only minutes ago while knowing my secret. When they find out my real identity... that's it." I mumbled feeling my eyes already wetting up.
"Listen son. We can't trust a ghost, in no actions. But if you proof to be a real human? We can't attack an innocent child now, can we?" For some reason Alpha reminded me of Vlad. I shook my head to gain some sense.
"How can I trust you, if you're not willing to trust me?" I asked agent Alpha the thing bothering me the most.
"We are humans, aren't we? We should stick together. Unless you aren't human..."
Oh boy, this was a trap. And again there was nothing I could do about it.
The news and the PDA just told the teenagers Danny broke out. Still they couldn't relax. They had found out Danny had to show his real identity. Then they would stop the attacking, for real.
"I think they're lying. In the reality gauntlet incident they still hunted him down, although they knew he was part human." Sam whispered worried about her best friend. Only Tucker understood what she was talking about and joined in.
"But back then it was a surprise to them and they wanted to check it out. Now, since they talked everything through maybe they are ok with that." The geek tried to calm the goth, though his hopes were crushed with the next updates.
*Hybrid will detransform anytime... on my orders all shoot. No kills, I repeat, no kills! We need the hybrid alive for experiments, this'll be a breakthrough in science.* Tucker looked shocked to Sam and Jazz.
"It's a trap. Danny will get captured when he's human." For a moment no one of the three dared to breath. Then Tucker tried to wildly tip on his PDA. "I need to change orders!" He yelled. "I'm wondering. You guys are acting way too overdramatic, like this would affect you in personal." They heard Valerie point out into the car room. This note brought Dash and Paulina to think about it. Tucker and Jazz were occupied, so it laid on Sam to defend themselves and Danny.
"Well... I wonder why you aren't so concerned about this! Without Phantom Amity Park has a serious ghost or smelly blossom box problem! This is about our future!" She implied by using her hands. Her lie had Dash and Paulina covered, but not the red huntress. Although she didn't answer to Sam's lie, she was still suspicious. "Danny Phantom will now reveal his true identity!" The radio shouted out. *Get on your positions.* Sam started biting her fingers out of complete stress.
"Oh no..." she whined scared.
"Not on my watch!" Tucker yelled still tapping like a maniac on his PDA.
"I for myself would like to find out Phantom's true identity..." The girls on the front heard Paulina saying and the strong agreement of Dash and Valerie.
"Tucker hurry!" Jazz screamed at her little brother's best friend.
"I'm already on it!"
"Now it's finally happening..."
Sam looked scared in the back to Tucker who was sweating like hell. *ready...* The radio went on again. "He's human!"
Just in time Tucker took control over the GiW communication system and shouted out loud into his PDA.
"Lower the guns! Don't shoot! I repeat! Don't! Fucking! Shoot!"
My eyes were tightly closed when I floated down to the ground and revealed my human self. I expected shooting or anything, but nothing happened. I opened my eyes, a little bit confused and exhausted. My Mom was shocked as hell, but not only her. The chief looked at me, then at his Hazmat agents and back to me.
"You? Sweetie?" Mom whispered, tears in her eyes.
"I'm sorry Mo-" She took me into a deep hug. I could see how she would understand every lie, my fast departure and all the times I came home too late. My drop of grades and my lack of sleep. Everything must've made sense now in her head. She released me and stood up.
"Why?" She asked me, probably pointing out why I never told her about my secret. But my attention was somewhere else. Now that she released me from the hug I had a clear sight at agent Alpha again. He was furiously tipping on his phone. Our eyes met and I realized my mistake.
"Shoot!"
I opened my eyes. I had no memories of what happened after Alpha demanded his minions to shoot. Then I looked around me. A wall of ice had built itself to protect me. I found Mom passed out in Dad's arms.
"Mom!" I cried, but Dad pointed a gun at me.
"Stay away, ghost! She helped you and that's how you thank her?" I saw him crying and my heart crushed into pieces.
"I...I didn't...I didn't do this on purpose..." I sobbed making steps backwards.
"Danny!"
I heard my friends and sister.
"Danny! Are you alright?" With my hands I signalled them to keep distance.
"Stay away from me!" I warned them. "We told you, a ghost is a monster." The GiW draw the conclusion.
"No he's not!" Sam defended me.
"You attacked him! You are the real monsters! Danny's ghost powers only protected him!" I was so glad to have a friend like her, but she was way to near to me.
"We all saw what he did to an innocent. His own mother." Tears started to fall my cheeks down. I didn't want to hurt her. I didn't want to hurt anyone at all!
"Capture him!" I was too perplex to do something, but my powers weren't. I saw ice rays shooting out of my hands without wanting it.
"No! Stop!" I screamed, but it just kept going. Agent K focused on my arm and actually hit it. This changed the way of my ice ray dramatically. My powers did something I could never forgive them.
Never.
They shot accidentally straight at Sam. I saw the shock in her eyes, till the ice beam hit her head and knocked her down.
"No!" I cried and the ice finally stopped. I fell on my knees and held her fragile body in my arms. I checked her weak pulse and clenched her onto my chest. I really thought I've lost her. My hands grabbed her dark hair that suddenly took the colour of white.
"No... please no..." I mumbled.
"What are you waiting for? Catch the boy!" I heard Alpha's orders. I didn't care anymore. I buried my face into Sam's hairs and cried. I cried so long till silence won, again.
When I dared to look back up, I knew this would hunt me up to my darkest dreams. Most of the operatives and Hazmat agents were pierced by ice spikes. The blood ran down on the blue ice needles spreading from the ground. They were all circled around me and I looked straight into agent Alpha's eyes.
"Murder..." he whispered, not wanting to believe the death of his best agents and half of his organization. Neither did I want to.
I looked into the dead eyes staring at me. Killed in motion, when they were screaming because they realized the death command. I shook my head.
"I... it wasn't... I didn't..." but I continued crying. I couldn't just have murdered these man? I didn't even think of using my powers, so why did they activate? I came here to talk to them. I even revealed my biggest secret. I wanted to solve this problem in peace so why did they have to be dead now?
"What did you do, Daniel?" I turned around in shock to look at a disappointed Vlad. A Vlad who must've come to my rescue, but was now rethinking his plan.
"I... thought you were... Why Daniel?" Not even the annoying nickname. Yes I hated it, just like him. But I didn't realize how much he meant to me. He was my enemy, but somehow he was still someone I could relate to. He had the same powers and could control them perfectly. I looked up to him in a way, I also wanted to achieve that. And now I'm down on the ground and can't control my powers at all. And turned into a monster.
"Help me..." I cried, not knowing what to do next or at all. One thing for sure, I couldn't stay at Amity Park. Or America at all. I shivered badly and hoped Vlad could help me out of this. One time. Because I really needed him now. He was the only one who could help me.
But instead he backed away from me. Because I was a monster. Even for other ghosts. I looked back at Sam who became suddenly a lot more colder. I laid her gently on the ground, because I realized I had to go, now or never. Then I heard a gun being loaded, right next to my ear. "You are going nowhere." I looked into agent K's furious face. He had a wound on his head.
"You killed my partner. I guess it's now eye for an eye." I closed my eyes when he shot out the gun. The bullet froze. I didn't wanna talk about what happened to the agent. Probably the same fate as agent O.
"Go away!" I cried out to everyone who thought of coming nearer to me. "Just go!" My enhanced hearing granted me to hear something I wished I never had.
"He is too dangerous. We need to kill him, instantly." I looked at Agent Alpha. How was he planning on killing me? Like the others? Who are dead now! But he had a surprise for me. He himself pointed his gun at me. "No..." I whispered, not knowing who's death was more likely.
"You know you are a threat to everyone. Not only to your enemies. No, also to your friends and family."
I thought about his words delivering the truth I didn't want to realize.
"It is better like this, Phantom. For everyone."
My breath went to an extreme height and I started hyperventilating. I would die now. I would die now for real. The worst thing was, that my death would be for the best. Would I become a full ghost or would I vanish forever? I gained sight at his gun. FG-4.38mm 6shots. Yep, this weapon would definitely kill me. I studied weapons to know which ones I had to fear and which ones were nearly harmless. This one was rare but deadly. It melts ectoplasm in an instant. And since my blood was mixed with quite a lot of ectoplasm, being shot by that would kill me no matter where it lands. I would vanish for all eternity. He loaded the gun and I tried to calm down. It's better like this, for everyone, I remembered his words. And he was right. I couldn't control my powers and it didn't matter where I would go, I was nowhere pleased to see. Not even in the ghost zone. Like I said, I'm both ghost and human, but neither accepted by any of these sides.
So let's get this finally over with. I tried to suppress my powers and closed my eyes. But cursing again my sensitive hearing. I heard a gun being loaded. Agent Alpha's gun already was, so it was a different gun holder with the same object. I opened my eyes and turned around, just in time to see my world crash into million of pieces.
I could observe the bullet reaching my eye. In slow motion. But the bullet wasn't the worst thing. It was the man behind the ghost hunting gun.
I'm so proud of you.
I remembered the feelings he gave me by saying that in Blueville. And now he was the one to kill me. In his eyes I could read anger and disappointed towards me. And this hurt more than any bullet could ever. Before the bullet splashed my right eye, I realized one thing.
I wasn't ready to die.
Then my world exploded.
