Disclaimer: I own neither Yu-gi-oh nor Danny Phantom.
And here is part three of the gift fic for my friend. Hope you like it, moonymonster.
While 'Bakura' and Atem are playing the ultimate dark game, 'Bakura' reveals disasters are happening all over the world due to Zork breaking loose.
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"I just don't understand it!" Maddie sighed in frustration. "These readings are absolutely insane."
"We know that ghosts are causing this storm. We have to find them and tear them apart, molecule by molecule!" Jack grabbed a weapon.
"But what ghost could be this powerful? Fires, floods, storms," all of Amity Park had needed to find high ground. Half of Danny's class was sharing the emergency ops center with them.
"Maybe it's the ghost that took us into the Ghost Zone a few months ago?" Mr. Gray suggested.
"But didn't Danny Phantom defeat him?" Jazz reminded them.
"If he did," Valerie sneered.
"If he didn't destroy him permanently he could just come back, Damon. And we've seen Danny Phantom fighting the same ghost several times. He doesn't kill the ghosts he fights." Maddie shook her head.
"If they're fighting and not just playing around."
Damon looked quellingly at Valerie.
"Damon," Maddie ordered, "You stay here and watch over the kids. If you have to, the emergency ops center can become a blimp."
"With my face on it!" Jack said cheerfully.
Maddie and Damon ignored him. "We're going to take the Specter Speeder and the Fenton Family Assualt Vehicle and see if there are any people caught in the flood because their roof weren't high enough."
Damon nodded. "I'll make sure they're all safe, Mrs. Fenton."
"Please, call me Maddie. This is the second time we've worked together like this." She held out her hand.
Damon shook it. "Only if you'll call me Damon."
"We'll head out then," Maddie replied, then headed down, dragging Jack after her. Jack's hands were holding a slice of the pizza a speedboat had delivered.
Valerie pleaded with Damon, their voices hushed but still loud enough for Danny to hear them. "Please, Dad! There are people in trouble out there."
"I don't want you out in this storm! You could get hit by lightening or slam into a building in this fog!" Outside the windows the only light that cut through the darkness were the occasional flashes of lightening.
"Dad, I'm fourteen! I was ghost hunting for weeks before the ghost kid revealed me, you know that! If my new suit protects me against ecto-blasts like when the ghost kid tried to kill me in space-"
"He tried to kill you!" Mr. Gray's eyes narrowed.
"That doesn't matter! Point is, people might be drowning out there! Do you want people to die because you don't trust me to look after myself!" Valerie stared him down.
He put a hand on her arm. "I don't want you to die. I promised your mother I would look after you.":
"Dad, I have to do this."
"No, you don't have to! If I ever find out who gave you that first suit.. and a ghost gave you this one! Shouldn't you get rid of it?" he pleaded with her. "I know the tests came back negative, but it could still be doing something to you!"
Valerie shook her head. "I don't care! If not me, who's going to stop those ghosts? Dad, I'm going out there whether you want me to or not. I just… wanted you to wish me luck."
"You're not going out there." He shook his head.
"Oh yeah? How do you think you're going to stop me? And don't threaten me with grounding. Hanging out with Paulina isn't worth people dying, Dad." Valerie didn't budge.
"…be careful." Damon hugged his daughter, who smiled.
"Thanks, Dad." She headed down the stairs too, out of sight.
Jazz had crept away from her workstation while Mr. Gray was distracted. "Danny," she whispered, and elbowed him.
"Yeah?"
"Follow my lead. Mr. Gray?"
"Yes, Jazz?" He turned to them, suddenly looking older.
"The lab can seal itself up, so we don't need to worry about it being flooded, but I'm going to have Danny go down there so if anything happens he can handle it."
"Anything like what?" Mr. Gray clearly didn't want another child to go into danger.
"Some of the equipment's a little delicate. I'll set up the ghost shield and make sure nothing comes through the portal. Don't worry, Mr. Gray." Danny smiled.
He sighed. "Well, if you're sure about this, Jazz."
Jazz nodded. "He'll be perfectly fine. I'll check in on him every once in a while, right Danny?"
So he would need to take his cell phone with him. "Right, Jazz. I'll get down there and seal it up right now." He followed Valerie out of sight.
He did go down to the lab and seal it. Mom had told Dad to seal it and he'd told Danny to, so technically he was doing what he was told.
He hadn't been told to cry, "Going ghost!" and slip through the walls.
He could feel the power in this storm, even if his ghost sense… now his ghost sense went off. He whirled around. "Plasmius!" His hands started to glow.
'Calm down, Daniel. Where's your mother?"
"Why should I tell you?"
"So she's out here, like you, flying around. How stupidly heroic of you both."
"How did you know that?"
Plasmius sighed and shook his head. "Daniel, Daniel… you just confirmed it for me." He turned to go.
"Wait! What are you doing here?"
"Making sure the love of my life doesn't get killed! This is no natural storm, Daniel, and it's only going to get worse. The old ghost I talked to was blabbering about a combat of the gods and the end of the world."
"The end of the world?" Danny gulped.
"I suppose my other pawn is also flying around out here." Plasmius scanned the skies and duplicated himself. Three headed off in different directions, the other remained with Daniel.
So Plasmius didn't want Mom to die. He would keep an eye on the Specter Speeder, probably invisibly.
Plasmius was one crazed-up fruit loop, but this was serious. "Truce?"
"Of course. I have other things to worry about, and so do you." Plasmius disappeared in a whirl of smoke.
Danny picked a direction and flew off, scanning the buildings. There were some boats already out there, Amity Park was on the Pacific Coast.
This was worse than Katrina. All over the world, too.
Plasmius was right, they had bigger problems.