Chapter 2: Hearing Voices

As Technius was sent back to the ghost zone, Technius woke up only to find Walker and his henchmen waiting for him near the ghost portal with ghost-cuffs in place. Walker's henchmen placed the ghost-cuffs onto Technius and took him back to the prison. While on his way to the prison he heard a strange voice echoing in his head.

"He doesn't see you as a threat" said the strange voice.

"Who are you?" asked Technius, "And who is this he you are talking about?"

"You very well know what I am talking about" replied the strange voice.

"Hey, look" said a guard looking at the back of the prison car, "here I thought only humans can hear voices. Now I am seeing ghosts talking to themselves."

"Worry about that later" said Walker as he was driving the prison car, "our friend Technius is going to join his ghostly friends in my prison."

Technius however was not crazy, but he was indeed hearing a strange voice.

"Just who are you?" asked Technius.

"Wait until we reach the prison" replied the strange voice, "then we shall talk."

Suddenly the prison car reached Walker's newly modeled prison. Two guards opened the door and grabbed Technius and threw him on the floor. As Technius looked up from the ground, he noticed Walker standing in front of him along with the deputy warden.

"Hearing voices are we?" asked Walker.

"Yes" replied Technius, "I am hearing one strange voice of unknown origins."

"I never saw the day a ghost can be talking to him or herself" said Walker, "but you take the cake."

"Should we place him in solitary confinement?" asked the deputy warden.

"Precisely what I was thinking" replied Walker, "take him away."

Back at Danny's house, Danny was about to go to sleep for the night, when the door bell rang. Jack immediately got up from his bed.

"Jack, it's two in the mourning" said Maddie, "go back to sleep."

"Can't" said Jack, "somebody is at the door, but I'll bring the Fenton bat just in case if it's a robber."

As Jack slowly walked downstairs, Danny snuck out of bed to watch Jack open the door. As Jack opened the door, there was the same woman Danny saw earlier today at the hardware store standing right in front of the door with some armed guards.

"Mr. Fenton" said Joan as she showed her I.D. to Jack, "I am from the government."

"What do you want at this hour?" asked Jack in a tired and sleepy voice.

"I'm from the government" replied Joan, "and I see you are perhaps one of the only citizens here in this city that has ghost hunting equipment."

"Are you here to take away my equipment for your own use?" asked Jack.

"No" laughed Joan, "I'm here to offer you a full time job at the government. Now you will be paid to catch ghosts."

"Hmm, a job offer?" asked Jack, "Well, I'll think about it in the mourning. In the mean time, I have to go back to bed."

As Jack closed the door, Danny turned invisible as Jack passed by him and walked back into the room he came in. Danny decided to change into his ghost mode and follow this mysterious woman. He wanted answers to why she showed up just in the nick of time back at the hardware store. So he followed Joan and her CABNUS cronies. Danny followed them as Joan and her CABNUS cronies from above as they reached at what looked like an abandon building in Amity Park. As Joan got out of the car along with her CABNUS guards, Joan went toward the door of the supposedly abandon building. Suddenly as Danny took a closer look at it, Joan was typing some type of a code on some computer panel that came up from nowhere. Joan and her CABNUS guards took a look around to make sure no body would follow them and entered the complex.

"Hmm, that's strange" said Danny to himself, "why does the government need to have some use of an abandon building like that? Oh maybe it's really a secret government facility."

Danny then landed near the entrance of the supposedly abandon building. He then turned invisible and went inside the complex. Yet Danny didn't even know what he was about to get into. Meanwhile, back in the ghost zone, Technius was thrown into solitary confinement by Walker's guards. As the door slammed shut behind him and Walker's guards left the scene, the strange voice started to talk to Technius again.

"Are they gone?" asked the strange voice.

"Yes" replied Technius, "so, who are you anyway?"

"If you must know" replied the strange voice, "I'm Brainiac."

"So, are you some sort of computer or a machine?" asked Technius.

"I was" replied Brainiac, "until I was reduced to an electrical current thanks to the Justice League."

"So why does everybody seem to be after you?" asked Technius.

"If you must know" replied Brainiac, "you and I are quite alike."

"How so?" asked Technius.

"You have a desire to control all of the world's electronics" replied Brainiac, "and so do I."

"Hmm" said Technius, "tell me, how did you come into my mind?"

"Remember when you were fighting that organic ghost boy?" asked Brainiac, "There was a part of the fight which you couldn't move. I was the strange electrical current that started to fuse with your body and even going into your mind as well."

"Interesting" replied Technius, "I suggest we form an alliance against Danny Phantom and anyone else we decide that we see as a threat to our agenda."

"A wise plan" said Brainiac.

"But how am I going to get out of Walker's jail?" asked Technius.

"Wait and see" replied Brainiac, "I'll stop talking to you for awhile to make Walker think you are sane. When he let's us out, we'll make our move and escape from this prison and enter the real world. Walker and anyone else who stands in our way will never know what hit them."