Goodbye to You
I don't own anything and I never will! Damn it!
Chapter 11: Beams and Bullets
Danny's life was going straight down into the abyss. He killed one person. Another has died due to his grudge with Vlad. His best friend hated him. He has mixed feelings for the other. And now, his parents have him cornered in an alley, weapons trained on him. This was what Vlad had wanted. Danny's path was on the verge of total annihilation that was only getting worst.
"Don't move or we'll fire!" Jack yelled at Danny.
Danny replied with, "This isn't how it looks."
"Right," Maddie began," and what does this look like?" She motioned her bazooka in a pointing gesture over to the dead body of Kwan.
"That wasn't me," Danny said.
"You ghost are all the same. Weaseling your way out of this only works for humans, not ghosts," Jack stated.
"I have humanity in me and I can explain-" Danny began to walk forward as he started this statement, but was halted by the two Fenton parents pointing their weapons at him.
"Don't move and inch!" Jack yelled.
"Just let me explain," Danny stated as he continued to walk forward. Just then, a thick green beam shot from Maddie's anti-ghost bazooka. Danny jumped back as it striked the ground only two feet from where he had jumped.
"A warning shot. The next time you try something else your gone," Maddie said as she recharged her weapon.
"Give me a chance," Danny said.
"You didn't seem to want a chance during the incident at city hall," Jack said," and this time, we have our weapons armed to kill. You know, since you didn't sow mercy to your victims, then why should we show mercy to you?"
"You're right," Danny said as he raised his arms up over his head. "I know I deserved better for my crimes, but I can't turn myself in now." He then shot into the air. The Fentons fired green energy beams from their weapons at the ghost boy, but their shots missed as they watched him disappeared over the roof off a building.
Maddie's eyes scanned the side of the building and then noticed a fire escape ladder hanging a few feet off of the ground. "I'm going after him," she said as she walked to the spot under the ladder.
"I'm coming too," Jack said.
"You can try, but okay," she said as she jumped up to the ladder. She grabbed the first bar and flipped herself up to the platform. As she planted her feet on the surface, she then raced up the stairwell and onto the building's roof.
"You know what? I better go and follow him in the car," Jack stated as soon as he figured out the chances of him doing that. With his wife covering the roofs, he ran over to the car to cover the streets.
Danny had flown past to rooftops before he decided to finally set down on one. He got behind a vent and sat down. "They tried to kill me," he said as he placed his head in his hands," they had their ghost weapons loaded. They were pointing them at me. They fired them at me." His parents were just after his ghost half. He could just transform out of it. But, then they'll know. What then? His parents were determined to hunt ghosts. Would they put the morals they had aside and possibly kill their only son. He didn't have much time to think this, as his mother had jumped into the air behind him and had withdrew her energy staff with the two anti ghost blades on wither side. He rolled off too the side as one of the blades hit the ground where he had been.
"This is the end of the line, Inviso-Bill!" Maddie yelled as she charged at Danny. She slashed her weapon at him, but it didn't move any more. She looked to see Danny's energy sword had been activated and was now pushing back on the blade. "That's the weapon you used to kill Valerie!"
"If you let me-" Danny began, but he fell to the ground as she tripped him with a low kick to his leg. He then leapt backward into the air as Maddie made an attempted stab at his body. "Cant' you just give me the time to talk."
"I don't trust your kind. I hunt ghost to bring them down, not to talk with them," Maddie said a she began another assault at Danny. Danny quickly blocked the swings as they came at him with intense ferocity.
"We can work something out!" Danny yelled over the clashing of their weapons.
"You killed two people. Your just like all the other ghosts, no remorse for human life," Maddie replied back. She then went in with a wide slice aimed at chest. Danny moved back, but not before getting a cut on his side. He bit down on his mouth to keep himself from crying out in pain as he felt the heat from the wound start to shear his flesh.
"What's your problem?" Maddie asked as she looked at the crouching ghost.
Still holding his wound, Danny quickly said off of the top of his mind, "I'm just laughing at how pathetic you and your husband are at ghost hunting." 'Something tells me I'm going to regret saying that,' Danny thought to himself.
"No one disgraces my family. Especially a ghost," Maddie stated.
Danny then watched her eyes move towards her goggles. 'Her we go,' he thought as he quickly as his sword then sheathed itself into his hand. Maddie then twisted the lens and fired two red energy beams from them at Danny. He ducked under the attacks and fired a small bolt of ghost energy at Maddie. It hit her dead center and sent knocked her on the ground. 'Sorry, Mom,' he thought as he quickly flew up into the air and glided above the street.
He turned his attention back to his hand, which was now a mix of both green ectoplasm and some blood. Luckily, after looking at the wound, he saw that the bleeding was only slight and the burning had stopped. 'Glad that's over with.' He thought to himself. Just then, a bolt of green energy hit the building to his side, leaving only a scorch mark. He looked behind him to his dad, driving the Fenton Ghost Assault Vehicle and the turret on it armed and ready. Danny shot forward as the car picked up speed behind him. The other vehicles in the road swerved quickly to avoid the car shouting out lasers, causing them to wither crash into a building or themselves.
"God sakes. Dad's going to kill someone," Danny said as he quickly dodged more incoming attacks.
"Damn traffic," jack said as he quickly swerved around a truck, "Can't they see that I am in pursuit of a ghost who is wanted for murder?" He then moved his hand to the weapon choice screen and pushed a button below it, changing the weapon from laser beam to ectoplasmic goo. "This should make it easier." He hit a button on the wheel with his thumb and a glob of green sludge fired from the cannon right at Danny. It hit his legs and wrapped around them, causing him to then start to slowly descend.
"This stuff is weighing me down," Danny stated as he felt his body going down and his speed decreasing. He put his hands to the goo and began to rip it off. Just then, he saw his mom jump from the roof of a building onto an awing. She then bounced from that onto the top of the car. "Now I am completely screwed," Danny stated as he now feverishly tried to rip the plasmatic substance off.
"Maddie! The cannon's are overheated from that last attack! We have to strike him now!" Jack yelled up to his wife.
"I got this!" she yelled back. She then retrieved her ghost bazooka from her back holster and aimed it at Danny. "This is it," she said as her finger began to move towards the trigger.
Danny had managed to rip the goo from his feet, which is when he saw his mother aim her weapon at him. Danny then looked ahead, this time seeing a police blockade up ahead.
"Stop!" one of the officers, yelled as the others aimed their guns at him
"They may not be doing a good job," Danny said," but they can help." He quickly shot forwards as the officers fired off rounds from their pistols. The bullets missed Danny as they passed right through him. He then accelerated right pass the vehicles. Jack had been taken off guard by this and turned the wheel quickly to the right, causing the vehicle to fishtail. Maddie dropped her weapon and grabbed onto the car's cannon for support. The vehicle then finally came to a stop, but not until crashing into two police cars.
The chief, wearing a officers uniform and a very pissed off expression on his face, yelled, "Fentons! What the hell!"
"Not something supportive to say to crash survivors!" Maddie yelled as she jumped down from the top and Jack came out through the door.
"We almost had him! Then, you two show up, practically destroying a dozen vehicles, and make us miss our target!" he yelled.
"Some good it would do you! You stupid bastard! You put us on this case because we had the technology to take him down! Your weapons are ineffective because they go right through him! Its common sense those will not work on a ghost!" Jack yelled.
"We are still the city's main line of defense. I don't care if you're a freaking' congressman! You watch where you're going or it's your asses we will throw in jail instead of the ghost!" the chief yelled.
"Well listen up!" Jack began as he, Maddie and the chief entered into a lengthy argument.
Danny was far from the accident as his mind was now clogged up with thoughts. His parents, the cops, and the entire city would now be on the prowl for "Inviso-Bill". He had been nearly killed. Even if he beat Vlad, how would he fix this mess up? 'I better go home and think this over.' He thought to himself. As he flew towards his dwelling, he said quietly to himself, "At least my house will be safe with the human me in it."
Will it be safe? Find out in Chapter 12!