His eyes began to twitch. His mouth started to vibrate. Small moans starting coming from his closed mouth. Slowly, Danny began to open his eyes. At first, he saw nothing except a large, dark blur. Then, when his eyes adjusted, he saw the ghost that had attacked him at the mall hovering right over him, but he saw another ghost. The second ghost he saw was a woman ghost. She had pale green skin with white eyes and long black hair. However, she had dark armor as well.
"Well, well, well," said the ghost who attacked Danny at the mall, "look who finally woke up. Maybe we can get some useful information out of you now."
"You…" Danny moaned, ready to burst but still barely awake. "You knocked me out and brought me here? I'll pulverize you…"
"Save the threats," the ghost said in a casual tone. He turned away and started looking at the female ghost. "Lady Raschenda, I think the time has come to start the process."
"Very well," said Raschenda, the lady ghost.
Danny saw her hit a button a control pad, and immediately Danny felt as if he was being levitated up. He looked down and saw that he was strapped to a weird piece of equipment. He was hooked up to the equipment and saw that the entire machine was hooked up to a large computer. Danny was strapped down to the machine, but he was being moved so that he would be laying vertically on it, as if he were being pressed against a wall.
The ghost who attacked Danny at the mall went over to Danny and gave him a very serious expression. "Look, kid, we don't want to be wasting our time on the likes of you. Now listen, and listen good to what I'm about to say: Where is the Ghost Boy!
"Uh…I don't know," Danny lied. He hoped that by lying, he could convince Raschenda and the other ghost that he wasn't the Ghost Boy, even though he knew he was. If he could convince them that he wasn't the ghost boy, then maybe they would let him go.
As soon as Danny answered that question, a siren went off on the large computer screen hooked up to the machine. Danny saw what looked like a life line on it, and there were dramatic rises in it.
"Lady Raschenda," said the ghost as he looked at the screen. "His heart rate is rising, he must be lying to us."
"We don't tolerate lying," Raschenda said as she walked away from the controls. Her voice sounded feminine enough, but Danny thought she sounded like bad news. "Well, no matter, we have ways of making you talk."
Saying this, Raschenda pulled out what looked like a large feather duster from her armor. She went over to Danny and showed it to him, basically saying that she was going to use that as a tool of interrogation.
Ha, Danny thought to himself when he saw it. Apparently, he thought she was going to try to tickle him with it. I may be ticklish, but that's not gonna get me to say anything different, Danny thought to himself as Raschenda approached him with the feather duster-type thing.
As he finished thinking this, the feathery things ignited into deep blue and green flames. Danny's eyes immediately widened with fear as Raschenda approached him with the now torch-like thing.
"Now, do you wish to say something different?" Raschenda asked as she moved towards Danny even closer. Danny couldn't move, he could only watch as Raschenda began to place the fire closer to him.
"Uh…I'm really not the ghost boy?" Danny said hopefully. He could only hope that Raschenda would believe it. Yes, he could only hope.
The computer started blaring again, signaling that Danny had just told a lie. As soon as that alarm went off, Raschenda pushed the fire right onto Danny's arm. Danny yelped in pain as the flame, more than six hundred degrees Fahrenheit, came into contact with his arm. Raschenda left it there for a few seconds and listened to Danny scream in pain. When Raschenda eventually lifted the flame, the pain stopped and there was no evidence of a burn mark or anything like that.
"I'm going to ask again," Raschenda said, "and I'm going to use a more painful tool if I find out you're lying. Are you the Ghost Boy?"
"Okay, okay, I am!" Danny said. "I'm the Ghost Boy! The Halfa! Inviso-Bill! Now will you please let me go!"
Raschenda turned towards the computer and expected the computer to start saying that he was lying. Surprisingly, she saw that he was telling the truth.
"What?" Raschenda said, staring at the computer in disbelief. "This cannot be correct! If you're the Ghost Boy, then why won't…uggh! You're going to pay for this, Ghost Boy!"
"What did I do!" Danny shrieked, starting to get annoyed. "Fine, you don't believe me that I'm the Ghost Boy! I'll prove it to you! I'm going ghost!"
Once again, Danny yelled his battle cry, hoping to go into Ghost Mode. Unfortunately, things worked just as well now as they did when the ghost attacked him at the mall.
"Something wrong?" Raschenda said. "You don't seem to be turning into your ghost form. Perhaps you have found some way to beat the lie detector we have installed on our computer?"
"Lady Raschenda," said the other ghost, who was now at the controls, "that's not possible! Our lie detectors are foolproof! They're far more advanced than the kinds those humans have! There's no way he could fool them!"
"Well, if he's really Danny Phantom as he's claiming he is, then try to extract his powers again!" Raschenda yelled.
"Extract my powers?" Danny said, obviously confused. "What are you talking about?"
The ghost hit a few buttons on the control panel, but nothing happened. Danny just looked around, obviously nervous. After what seemed like the longest time, Raschenda just sighed. She was obviously annoyed but didn't unleash any of it.
"Something is not right here!" she scowled. "How can he be the Ghost Boy and not have his powers!"
"How do you know he doesn't have any of his powers?" the ghost at the control panel asked.
"Because the machine isn't extracting any!" Raschenda screamed. "If he had his powers, then we would be extracting them from his body and blood!"
"Well, Lady Raschenda, if he doesn't have his powers but claims he is the Ghost Boy and it's being confirmed that he's the Ghost Boy by our lie detectors, then there is obviously something wrong! He could be a Maldum spy who has somehow tricked the system. Only a Maldum could even hope of tricking the lie detector. Vundeter, take him to the torture chamber!"
"Yes, Lady Raschenda," said Vundeter, releasing Danny from the machine and dragging him into the torture chamber.
"What's a Maldum?" Danny said quietly as he was being carried off to the torture chamber. "And did he say…torture chamber?"
Vundeter threw Danny into a small room. Instantly, Vundeter pulled out an arsenal of sharp and dangerous objects. He looked at Danny with a very angry face.
"Now, we can do this the easy way, or we can do it the hard way," Vundeter said. "I'd have more fun doing this the hard way, but it's your choice."
Danny could only gulp and look, terrified at all the machines and torture instruments Vundeter had in his hands.