A/N: Halo everybody. It's a video game and it's also my way of saying hey. Due to the webmaster not letting me talk to you reviewers I'll just cut to the chase. Here it is, chapter seven, "I Walk Alone"
The sun rose over the forests that surrounded Camp Casper, shining on every good person that was trapped in the horrible, mind probing death trap. Unfortunately, two of these good people were locked in a dark room in the Administrators section of the camp. The boy woke up first, he was sleeping in a hard metal chair, and was fastened tightly to it by two ropes. His eyes opened slowly, and the dark room came into view. A girl slept on a bed, with a bandage wrapped around her foot, but the rest was darkness. Tucker went back to sleep, for there was nothing better to do.
Sam was the second to wake up, her violet eyes blinked a few times, adjusting from the darkness of her dreams to the darkness in the room. The pain in her foot exploded across her body, ending up on her face, which bore a deep frown. She managed to reposition herself so she can sit on the bed, but that was about all she could do. Her glance swung over to Tucker, asleep in his chair.
"Hey Tucker, I'm up," Sam told him, depressed and painfully.
"No mommy, just five more minutes," Tucker lulled.
"It's me Tucker, Sam, your friend, the one with the hole in her foot."
"Tam? That you? I thought you dumped me in last night's dream, and I am staying put," Tucker unintelligently mumbled.
"Tucker, WAKE UP!" Sam shouted.
"The rake is up?"
"NO! WAKE UP!
"A snake pup? Wow those are rare."
"Never mind," Sam mumbled.
"Ever Behind? I never saw that movie…" Tucker slurred.
"Ugh…" Sam whispered and she fell back down on her bed. While she lay there, Tucker seemed to stir.
"Hey Sam, good morning. You know, I just had the craziest dream about my Mom and Tam and rakes and pups and…" Tucker continued on but Sam refused to listen, she was worried about Danny. Falling off that cliff would have shocked his mind enough to kill him, she thought. That spun her deeper into the web of despair in which she found herself.
"Sam, you ok?" Tucker asked her, looking at her face, which showed extreme sadness.
"No, I'm not," Sam told Tucker, her voice was choked up and teary. She turned her face from Tucker to the wall.
"We can talk about it you know, there's not much else to do," Tucker told her, noticing the crying noises she made.
"Danny is dead Tuck! He's dead! He fell off a cliff, right in front of me! Oh Tucker, I'm never going to see him again!" Sam cried.
"Sam, you never know, maybe Danny survived, he probably turned ghost and flew right back here, he just hasn't saved us yet," Tucker told her, trying to lift the darkened spirit that hung in the room.
"No Tucker, he's dead, I know he's dead, Dr. Cryogen said that being shot would shock his mind so much in the real world that he'd die, the same would work for cliffs," Sam choked between tears.
"Sam, I miss him very much too, if what you say is true, but it's nothing to get all teary over…"
"THAT'S BECAUSE YOU NEVER LOVED HIM!" Sam shouted. Tucker looked at her, in shock and surprise.
"Repeat that, please," Tucker cautiously whispered.
"You would never understand because you never loved him! Yes Tucker, I admit it, I love Danny! It's love that has always been there, and has grown over time. I just could never tell him, or anyone, Goth's are supposed to be against love and happiness. But now, if I could only see him again, I'd… I'd…" She didn't finish, her tears got in the way.
"Just cry Sam, just cry. I'd tell you to let it all out, but I don't want to go there," Tucker tried to sound as comforting and kind as he possibly could, disrupted teenage girls just need to cry, and have someone to cry to, at least that's what he read in, "Romance for Dunderheads."
"Thanks Tucker, for being here, it means a lot to me." Sam told him, trying to suck it up and stop crying.
"Your welcome Sam, though I don't really have a choice," Tucker told her calmly and compassionately. Eventually, Sam cried herself back to sleep, and Tucker was left there, in the dark, with a lot to think about.
---------------------- Back at the Lab-------------------
Danny sped over to the room where he had just released himself and the Late Daz from Camp Casper. He turned invisible and phased through rooms 1-12. He quickly sped through the wall and landed in Room 13, where Dr. Cryogen held a pistol, that was aimed directly at Sam's head.
"Get away from her… now!" Danny shouted to the best of his ability, he was still tired and torn from his battle with the green beast that lived inside the doctor.
"You easily forget, I'm the one with the gun so I have the power here! Not you. Why should you be throwing orders at me when I could just pull this trigger and end her life?" the man scowled.
"If you won't go, I'll make you go." Danny started to fly and zoomed right into Dr. Cryogen, hoping to take over his body. He struggled and fought, but his mind was too powerful for conquer, he was cast out and thrown onto the ground, knocked unconscious.
"He really does love you doesn't he?" the doctor told Sam, then he gave a chuckle, "Let's see how he likes it, when I destroy everything he ever lived for, without destroying anything." Cryogen hoisted the unconscious Danny onto the metal bed he was on earlier, and he jammed the two wires into his head.
When Danny opened his eyes, it was all dark, in unnatural dark, like that of the unprogrammed section of Camp Casper.
Danny looked around; there was nothing but blackness everywhere his eyes turned.
He blinked for just a second, and the world around him transformed. He was standing on an old, broken up stone bridge. Mist covered the cobblestones and filled the empty abyss below the bridge.
Cautiously, Danny began to walk down the path, though he knew he would regret it, it was the only way. After a few steps, something appeared in the sky, it was bright orange and it came down in front of Danny, it was Jack Fenton, his dad.
"Danny! You gotta help me son! They took the fudge away! All the happy fudge! And they fed me… ca…car…carrot sticks! They made me run Danny! 30 long miles! And now they are chasing me, please Danny, save me!" Jack shouted, but his shouts were silenced by a bullet that had whizzed past. It nailed him straight in the head, blood began to spread, and Jack fell dead on the ground.
"Dad! No!" Danny cried out and he knelt down to comfort Jack's dead corpse. Tears of anger began to stream down his cheeks, but he knew he had to keep walking. As he continued down the lonely path, something else fell from the sky, his mother.
"Danny, they burned down our house Danny! They destroyed the lab, the ghost portal, everything! I got out alive, but they are after me! Come on Danny, please help me," she exclaimed, but she was also silenced quickly. In an instant, her head swelled with bright red blood, Maddy Fenton had died also.
"Not Mom too! This is all… too much!" Danny exclaimed tearing up with those same angry tears. But he knew the road wasn't over, there was something at the end he had to get too. So he threw his despairs aside and moved on.
As he continued, he encountered another person, who was stumbling on the road, she seemed to trip and Danny rushed to help her up, but she had already been dead. There in his hands, was Jasmine Fenton, also dead.
Danny hugged his sister, and wept with despair at the death of his family. He stood there a long time at his sister's side, hugging her, and whispering things to her, but he knew the road wasn't over.
He was nearing the end, when another person made him stop. It was Tucker; he was walking around, obviously crippled. Danny rushed too him.
"They did it Danny, they took the tech away from my soul, they raked my soul of every day and every memory that ever had anything to do with technology. My soul is now empty Danny, and I will no longer linger in this world of pain," Tucker told him, almost zombie-like. He fell to the ground, not dead, but barely alive. His loss of will to live will kill him in time. Danny wept again over Tucker, his best friend, also left for dead on this accursed road. But he pressed on.
As he walked, every person he ever knew stood in the abyss and mocked him, they snarled at him, they gnashed their teeth at him, and spit. But the road was coming to an end, and Danny had to see it there.
There he was, at the end of the long bridge of despair, his heart ached with lust and doubt, his will to walk on diminished so extremely that he had to collapse on the ground. He stuffed his face into his hands and continually wept, he couldn't finish, it was too extreme of a hurt.
"Danny! Help me up! I'm falling, Danny!" a female voice shrieked. Danny recognized it well, it was Sam! He rushed over to the edge of the bridge, where Sam dangled. Her hand began to slip off of the stone that she held on to.
Danny seized her hand and began to pull on it. But Sam was still dangling, and began to slip from his grasp. His grip tightened, but it did little good, Sam's hand continued to slide.
"Sam, I… I love you!" Danny cried as her hand left his grip.
"Danny!" She called up to him, but her words were of no use, she fell down into the eternal abyss, never to be seen by anyone again. There Danny collapsed; his body was streaked of all happiness, joy or love. All that remained was anger, sorrow, sadness, depression, heart break, and despair.
His world changed again to a circular platform that was fairly large. The same abyss hung over the area like fog hanging over London. As he wept and cried out curses and degraded himself, a dark figure walked over to him.
"Danny, Danny, Danny. You poor creature. Only fourteen, and you've experienced more heartbreak than most beings ever experience. Your world is dead, so what purpose is there left for you? Die Danny, die here, die now. It's your only escape from this despair," Dr. Cryogen told him, circling him.
Danny's face turned up at the twisted Doctor.
"YOU! This is all of your doing's! This is all YOUR fault!" Danny exclaimed.
He laughed, "Of course it is my entire fault. But does that matter? No, I didn't think so. So let me take you away from a world of pain." He unslinged a pistol and aimed at Danny's head.
"NO!" Danny shouted and he hit Dr. Cryogen hard in the jaw forcing the gun out of his hand. Danny transformed into his ghost self and shot the Dr. with the ghost ray.
"You little… fine, you wanna play rough, I can play rough," The doctor immediately transformed into his horrendous ghost beast. "I always play rough!"
Before the creature had a chance to attack, Danny slammed him into the ground, gave him a few solid punches to his head, and shot him with a large ghost ray.
The monster lifted up his head and stared hard at Danny, he threw a punch right at him, but Danny grabbed his arm and flung the beast to the other side of the platform. He slammed hard into the ground, sending cracks throughout the entire floor.
"How did you improve?" the beast snarled, blood oozing from his lips.
"When your world is destroyed, the only thing you have left is your fighting spirit, and you are even stronger when you don't care who wins," Danny told him, his voiced creaked from heart ache.
"No! This was supposed to weaken you! This never happened before!" the creature cried out.
"Then maybe it's about time then," Danny told him and he hit him hard in the jaw. The creature's jaw ripped wide open, and something began to emerge from it. It was a ghost.
"Danny Phantom, you are the superior. I cannot stay in this human any longer, my job was almost complete, only one halfa remained. I swear Phantom, this is NOT the last you'll hear from me. But I must leave, before I degenerate from exposure of your world," the ghost told him and he disappeared leaving a very beat up Dr. Cryogen lying on the ground. But soon his world went black, and he felt the feeling of falling forever, as if he was disconnected from this world and brought over into ours.
