Chapter 16
The people of Amity Park were used to ghosts. A little over ten years ago it had become a part of their everyday lives. Sure it's been quiet the past few years, but they always knew something would probably happen. And of course it would be linked to their old town hero, Phantom.
The ghosts came out of nowhere. Sure, everybody had seen Freakshow's broadcast, but everybody also remembered him getting his ass handed to him by Phantom, who was much younger at the time. And also not the king of ghosts. The locals had tried their best to warn everybody, to make precautions, but most tourists (or new residents) blew them off. They tried the shield around the town, because as much as they hated them, the Fenton parents do have some useful stuff. However, Freakshow is human, and so is Danny. They both could have easily slipped through, and then brought the ghosts in through a portal. As for the ghosts outside, well, Portal is one of Danny's favorite video games. It's not a surprise he would use that method to get the ghosts through.
The cloud of ghosts was so thick they couldn't see the grey, cloudy sky past it. It was just a sea of green.
They really, really hoped Danny was okay.
Everyone in town, mostly the people he went to high school with, figured out Danny's secret pretty quickly. Fenton wasn't exactly quiet about what happened in his parents lab when he talked to Sam and Tucker. Then a few days later a ghost hero shows up, and Danny starts acting weird? Not to mention they look the exact same? And the fact that Danny, for as heroic as he was, went my Danny Phantom for five years? The whole "going ghost!" phase too made it obvious Danny wasn't normal anymore.
It was kind of a no-brainer.
But the whole town also knew of his parents. The great ghost hunting duo, Jack and Maddie Fenton, vowing to tear Phantom apart molecule by molecule.
Phantom has done a lot for them over the years. The least they could do was keep his secret. It was an unspoken rule of the town.
But then he came out to his parents with it, and they...They did some pretty messed up stuff.
Dash had been surprised the day Sam and Tucker and Jazz came to him, begging for his help. All they needed was his brute strength. So Dash had called Kwan, because the guy is a fucking behemoth, and together they both brought down the doors to Fentonworks. But when they got there, it had already been too late. Danny had been shipped away to some government facility the Guys in White ran.
The whole place was caked in ectoplasm. On the floors, walls, and even the ceilings. And when the Fenton parents walked in from their basement, Dash could guess what atrocities they had committed against their own son.
Tucker had broken down soon after, his best friend kidnapped and probably never to be seen again. Jazz had disowned her parents, and hasn't spoken to them since. Sam suddenly took up Krav Maga. And they weren't seen for a while. But then six months later Phantom was back, and so were his friends. Different, sure, but back. He stayed as far away as he possibly could. Then another six months flew by and Phantom defeated Pariah Dark. Then...Then Phantom stopped coming to Amity. Yeah, there weren't really any ghost attacks anymore since the whole Pariah thing, but the town missed him. It wasn't just his heroics that they enjoyed. It was his whole personality and aura. Without him, the town went back to being a tourist trap.
Dani was nice, and she did her best to protect Amity when it needed to be, but with no ghost attacks it was a rare occurrence to see her.
They really wished they had her now, though.
Dash grunted as he swung a Fenton Creep Stick at one of the ghosts, making is splatter everywhere. Ectoplasm landed on his face and clothes. He looked over at Paulina, who had two small ecto-guns and was blasting her life away if any of them got to close. Kwan was close by with two giant gauntlets made for punching ghosts, helping Lancer get some citizens inside of the school. It was one of the only places in Amity big enough to hold a decent amount of citizens.
"The Shining!" Lancer cursed as he held up a hexagonal ecto-shield, blocking some ghosts from the entrance as Kwan pummeled it to goo. "Baxter, get your friends and let's go!"
Dash slammed the bat into three more ghosts before following Kwan and Paulina inside. Lancer pressed a button by the door, activating the school's shield.
"I hope Danny is okay," Paulina said.
"Yeah, and Valerie, too," Kwan chimed in. Dash didn't say anything, though. He just looked out of the green tinted windows, worried about his old friend and the kid he used to shove into lockers.
"It's Danny, you guys," he said after a moment, turning back to them. "When is Danny not fine?"
"Always, dude," Kwan told him. "That's why we're worried."
"There hasn't been an invasion like this since Pariah Dark," Pauline said. "I'm not so sure he'll be able to get out of this one."
"The squirt's gotten out of worse," Dash said. He started walking down the hall to the cafeteria to assure the civilians that there wasn't anything that could break through the shield Tucker designed.
None of them noticed Lancer in the back, his eyes glowing red.
Being trapped in a cell was bad. But usually it was manageable. However, being trapped in there with Sam and Tucker was fine. Unless it wasn't.
For the past however long, they've been throwing as much shade as they could at the Fenton parents. Valerie, always the outspoken one, didn't say anything to them. Because for her, there were no words that could describe how she felt about them. People always joke about their in-laws being bad, but Valerie is sure hers take the cake.
It seemed like forever until Walker floated in, with several of his guards in tow.
"It's time," he told them.
"For what?" Asked Clint. Walker gave him a feral grin.
"To die."
