Danny stared in complete disbelief as he looked at the glowing ball in front of him. Inside the glowing blue ball was something that he had always been dreading would happen ever since his problems with Horrick started, and now it looked like they were about to come true.

"Mom! Dad! Jazz!" Danny yelled.

It was his family: Jazz and his parents. The three of them were trapped inside the glowing ball, unable to move or do anything to help themselves escape. Things only got worse when he looked to the side.

"Oh no…" Danny moaned.

Now it was worse. Not only were Danny's parents trapped inside that glowing ball, but so were his friends, Sam and Tucker. They were all standing like statues with fear and terror written all over their faces. They looked like they were in line to go into a guillotine.

Horrick and Compton had found them all and captured them and could now do whatever horrible things he wanted to any of them.

"Heh heh heh heh heh," Horrick chuckled. "You see what happens when I want revenge, Ghost Child?" he asked. "When I want revenge, I get it! Now I have you and your family to make suffer and torment."

"If you lay a finger on them, I'll rip your face off, stuff it in a package and mail it to you for Christmas. How does that sound!" Danny yelled, turning his attention away from the glowing ball and looking back at Horrick.

"Calm down, Danny," he said, pretending to be soothing. "I'll gladly let them go. On one condition: give me your powers."

"My powers?" Danny shrieked. He looked around to his family, and he saw their eyes filled with fear and helplessness. He then looked back at his loved ones who had never seen so helpless and desperate. He passed quick glances to both the glowing ball and Horrick, not sure what to do.

"What am I supposed to do?" Danny asked himself. "Should I just give up and let Horrick have my powers? Hey, it'll guarantee my family and friends they'll survive, plus it'll be a huge weight off my shoulders. If I give up my powers, not only will my family be okay, but I also won't have to fight anymore. It'll be like killing two birds with one stone!"

For a while, Danny thought that was the most logical decision to make. But then, some thoughts started clouding his thinking, and those thoughts made him think twice about whether or not he really wanted to just give up like that.

"But if I give up my powers, Horrick is going to take them and make himself stronger. What then? All I'll have done is create this huge threat to everyone. If Horrick gets my powers, then who's going to beat him? Compton is on his side now and my parents threw out all their ghost hunting equipment. Besides, he never said anything about not killing ME. I'M the one he wants to kill, and he probably will if I give up my powers. Giving all my strength to some psychopath who has no enemies to stand in is way is the LAST thing I want to do if I'm going to die."

"Make your choice, Danny," Horrick hissed, trying to put as much pressure on him as possible. Horrick pressed a small button on a remote control he had pulled out of his pocket. As soon as he hit the button, water started to pour into the ball, and with Danny's loved ones trapped inside, it wasn't going to be long before the water went in to the top of the ball and submerged everyone inside of it, drowning them.

"Now is the time to choose," Horrick continued. "Surrender your powers to me now, or let your loved ones meet a watery grave."

Danny continued to just look at Horrick and his family back and forth. Water continued to fill up the spherical tank as Danny's loved one's faces continued to look more and more horrified about what it was Danny was going to decide to do. As he stared back at them, rage swelled up inside of him.

Without warning, Danny instead fired a solid and painful punch right to Horrick's skull. Horrick screamed in pain and was knocked to the floor, dropping the remote.

Danny stormed over to Horrick as he lay on the ground. While Horrick was still in serious pain, Danny grabbed the remote and smashed the button on it, stopping the water from pouring in. He then resorted to firing a blast at the controller and breaking it to pieces, so no one could start the flow of water again.

Danny passed a quick glance to Compton, who was now looking extremely terrified. When he saw Danny's raging stare, he dashed out of the room as quickly as he could, almost tripping as he went out the doorway.

After staring at the doorway after Compton exited, Danny ran over to the giant sphere of water and started trying to talk to his family and friends through it.

"Guys, you okay?" Danny screamed, trying to be loud enough for his voice to travel through the thick surface of the ball. As he yelled, he pounded the side of his fist on it. "I'm going to get you out of there, I promise!"

Danny looked at Jazz, and she looked really worried. Danny couldn't hear a thing she was saying, but she was screaming something and pointing to something behind her brother. It looked like she was saying "Danny, look out!"

After seeing Jazz and being sure she was trying to tell him something, he turned around and saw Horrick ready to fire some ectoplasmic energy at him. Danny was able to duck out of the way just in time and the ray hit a wall behind them instead.

"So, you wanna fight, do ya?" Danny asked. "Fine! I've taken you on before, and I know I can cream you!"

It was true. Danny had fought Horrick before, and he had beaten Horrick with little effort. Just because he had reason to try to kill Danny this time didn't mean he had actually gotten more strength.

As expected, Danny completely pummeled Horrick. It was nothing except punch, after punch, after punch. Horrick could barely stay standing as Danny fired one blow after another to Horrick's face.

Danny topped it off by firing an ectoplasmic blast into Horrick's face. Horrick just fell to the ground like a thud after that. He just stared at Horrick coldly for a few seconds before running back to the sphere where his family and friends were trapped and up to about their hips in water.

"You guys all right?" Danny asked, a little short of breath after that brief brawl.

Everyone nodded their head and tried talking, but Danny couldn't hear anything. When he realized this, he just tried to find a way to get them out of there.

"All right, I'll just get you guys out of there and…"

Danny was struck over the back of the head. He screamed as he clutched his now-burning skull from the impact. He turned around after being dropped to his knees, trying to see who hit him. It was Horrick, back on his feet.

"You dirty little punk," Horrick hissed.

"Hey, that doesn't sound like something a classy European-sounding guy should be saying," Danny said, not getting up.

"Would you rather I just let you die like those classy Europeans did during the Middle Ages?" Horrick said, grabbing Danny by the front of the jumpsuit and pulling him closer.

"Normally, I'd say yes," Danny agreed. "There's just one problem: this isn't the Middle Ages anymore."

After that response, Danny fired another blast into Horrick's face, causing Horrick to drop him. Danny fell on the ground, but got up in a matter of seconds.

"This guy's crazy," Danny thought to himself. "If I fight him in here, he's going to blow this entire room up. I can't let him fight in here while my parents and Jazz and Sam and Tucker are still stuck in there. I gotta get him out of here if we're going to fight to the death."

As Horrick was still recovering from the hit, Danny ran out of the room and into another one as fast he could go. Horrick, now upset that the person he wanted vengeance on for killing his daughter was running away, started to growl. He made haste down the winding hallways in the mansion and tried to follow Danny so the stand-off battle could continue.

Danny was running and eventually found a room, but it was one he was familiar with. It was the same room he was in the first time he got captured and brought to Horrick's mansion. It was the room with gas valves and hoses, as well as some dangerous looking chemicals all over the room. Radiators and heaters lined the sides of the room, just like always.

Danny was doing his best to keep quiet, but he knew it wouldn't be long before Horrick came by and found him hiding. And sure enough, it wasn't. Horrick soon popped his head in the doorway and gave Danny the most malicious stare-down he had given him yet.

"This is the end, Danny!" he threatened. "One of us is going down now!"

"Yeah, and I can safely tell you right now it's NOT going to be me!"

Danny fired a blast of energy and hit Horrick in chest, sending his enemy to the ground with a thud. As Horrick got up, Danny noticed that the deep scar on Horrick's arm from slicing himself with a knife when he proved he and Danny were connected seemed to be getting worse. The puncture could now clearly be seen going very deep, and just about anything in the air would able to get into it. It looked pretty gross.

When Horrick was on his feet again, he ran over to a shelf and grabbed a glass container from it. He started launching them at Danny as fast as he could. Luckily, Horrick wasn't so strong, so he didn't seem to be throwing nearly hard enough for it to be a challenge to dodge all of the containers.

"All right, now you're just wasting my time," Danny remarked after Horrick had run out of things to throw at him. "If you're going to threaten me, at least be a bit of a threat."

But Danny had talked a second too long, because Horrick fired his own blast of ectoplasmic energy and knocked Danny to the ground. As Danny moaned in pain for a bit and tried to get up, Horrick ran to a corner of the room and pulled something out.

It was one of the gas hoses in the room. He ran towards Danny as fast as he could with it. When he was right at Danny's feet, he pointed the nozzle on the hose right at his Danny's face.

"That's it, Ghost Boy!" Horrick snapped. Danny's eyes widened in disbelief as he saw the front end of the hose ready to spray toxic gas into his face and poison (or suffocate) him. "Your time has come! Now Aria shall be avenged!"

At the last possible second, Danny kicked Horrick's shin, causing him to lose balance. Horrick had just pulled the trigger on the hose, causing the gas to come spraying out just as he lost his footing.

As he was trying to regain himself, Horrick couldn't help but keep his finger on the trigger to the hose. As he fell backwards, the gas sprayed out and went right by the heater. As soon as the hot hair from the heater came into contact with the gases, the two ignited, creating a huge blaze of fire.

The fire started spraying backwards and went right onto Horrick. In no time, Horrick was screaming loud enough that someone would think he just had a wrecking ball dropped on his foot. He began running around the room randomly as he continued to catch fire.

Danny watched in horror as he saw Horrick, who was now looking like a human torch. He ran around the room screaming loudly. And if Danny could have done something to extinguish Horrick and stop him from catching fire like that, he would. But there was nothing he could do.

Finally, Horrick couldn't take it anymore. While he was still on fire, his entire body just gave up and knelt down. But he knelt down in the wrong place, which was right by the bottles of chemicals that he had been throwing at Danny a little while before. As soon as the fire came into contact with those chemicals, the fire on Horrick exploded with chemicals as they touched him.

After the massive explosion, all Danny could see was a massive fireball with Horrick inside of it. Horrick didn't seem to be moving.

"Hope you wanted to be cremated," Danny cracked at the fire.

Danny made a quick run out of the room with the roasting Horrick in it. He now knew the mansion well enough to know where the exit was now, and that was the place he was headed. He made his way down the never-ending hallways until he finally reached the front door. However, there was an obstacle in the way. Compton was standing at the doorway out with his arms crossed.

"That's as far as you go!" he challenged.

Danny thought it was ludicrous how Compton was trying to stop him. Compton had no weapons or equipment whatsoever; Danny wasn't about to just surrender like that.

"Dude, get out of my way," Danny said.

Compton continued to just stand there with his arms crossed. He barely even moved at all.

"Last chance, Compton!" Danny yelled, starting to get irritated.

"You're not going anywhere, Danny! Do you understand me! You're not leaving this mansion, and that's tha…"

Danny didn't let Compton finish; he instead just fired a blast of ectoplasmic energy right at Compton's temple, knocking him out cold. Compton fell to the ground after taking Danny's hit, his eyes closed and a bit of blood.

"That takes care of Compton and Horrick," Danny remarked. "Now all I gotta do is get everyone out of that blue ball thingy."