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Danny ran back into the room he was in a little while ago. He had just blasted Compton in the head when he was standing in the way, not to mention just witnessing Horrick go up in flames. He wanted this whole thing to end, and now it would finally would.
There was no sound to be heard except for Danny's heavy breathing as he ran through the carpeted hallways. His footsteps echoed due to the fact there was no other feeling of anything being alive other than him.
Finally, he reached the room that had his family and friends in it. He seemed relieved to see they were all okay and that it didn't look like they were hurt or anything like that.
"Good to see guys are okay," Danny said as he walked in. The sphere was still filled up partially with water, but it looked like everything else was fine. Everyone in there seemed to be relieved to see Danny was going to get them out.
Danny looked around for some door or switch that would open up the container, but he found nothing. After being frustrated and perplexed by not finding anything to open the circular container, he finally had enough.
"Okay then, if this thing won't open, I'll have to get you guys out of there some other way," Danny concluded. "All of you, stand still and don't move."
Danny's family and friends stood completely still, just as he asked. They had no idea what he was doing, but they found out soon enough that he had figured out a way to get them out.
Danny pointed his palm at a place on the sphere where no one was standing, and then he fired a thin blast of ectoplasmic energy at the container. He slowly started firing the beam lower and lower, like he was cutting off the end of a plate of steel with a blowtorch.
After Danny had made a straight line down the middle of the sphere, it split open and all the water came pouring out. When all the water was out, Danny's parents, his sister, and his two best friends joyfully hopped out of it and ran over to Danny, all of them with huge smiles on them.
"Danny, that was awesome!" Tucker exclaimed.
"Hey, where's that other ghost?" Sam asked.
"You mean Horrick? Well, let's just say I always thought he needed to chill out. Anyway, it's over guys. You're all safe again."
"Thank you so much, sweetie!" Maddie yelled, running over to Danny and giving him such a tight hug to the extent where he thought she was going to snap him in half. Her mood suddenly turned angry after that, though. She stood up straight and put her hands on her hips. "But you're in big trouble for running away, do you hear me!"
Danny had completely forgotten about running away the night before. He still thought it was the safest thing to do, but even that got his family and friends into trouble. He didn't care right now about what kind of punishment he got. What he was concerned about now was the fact that everyone he cared about was safe.
"I don't know about you guys," Danny said, "but I really want to get out of here."
"Yeah," everyone said in unison.
Danny turned around and led everyone to the front door of the mansion. Although everyone was completely quiet, there was a massive feeling of relief from everybody that they would finally be leaving this nightmare that had engulfed them fro the past couple of days.
Danny led all of them out of the Ghost Zone and back to the portal leading into their basement. The entire flight back was silent, but it wasn't so bad. After all, what could anybody possibly want to say after that encounter?
As all of them passed through the swirling portal, they found themselves back in their basement. It was a wonderful feeling for everyone to finally be out.
Jack was the first to get up and stretch his legs. He let out loud sounds from his mouth as he tried to get adjusted back to his regular physics.
"Little brother, that was awesome!" Jazz yelled, running over to Danny and giving him a big hug.
"Uh…yeah," Danny carelessly and humbly said.
"Well Danny, you're still in huge trouble!" Maddie yelled. "Now your father and I need some time to think of an appropriate punishment for running away and scaring us to death."
"Oh, oh, I got an idea!" Jack yelled. "Why don't we all go out to eat tonight to celebrate this!"
"Jack?" Maddie asked. "How's that a punishment?"
"Oh, we can always worry about punishing him tomorrow, right Danny?"
"Uh…sure?" Danny weakly said.
"Then it's settled! Let's go to Grease City for some dinner!"
"But Jack, we don't have the income right now to afford this…"
"Maddie, in a world of money, nobody gets in the way of Jack Fenton and his appetite. Now let's get going!"
Danny and Tucker seemed excited about going out to eat at a restaurant called Grease City, but Jazz and Sam were a little more laid back about it.
"Yuck," both girls said in unison. Their eyes widened, and then they passed quick glances to each other.
"Okay, that's one thing we have in common," Sam admitted.
Just as everyone was ready to head out the door, a knocking sound was heard. Everyone looked at each other to see who should answer the door until Jazz finally agreed to do it. She walked over to the door and pleasantly opened it until she saw who was standing there.
Jazz opened the door to see the middle-aged, angry faces of Mr. and Mrs. Compton. Jazz was really grossed out by a huge bulging scar that was on the part of Mr. Compton's head where Danny had blasted him a little while ago.
"You!" Mrs. Compton yelled, pointing her finger at Danny, "you get over here right now!"
Danny started to walk towards them until Jack grabbed at Danny's shoulder, basically telling him not to do what she was ordering him to do. "Danny, I'll take care of this."
Jack went up to Mrs. Compton and said, "Can I help you?"
This seemed to infuriate Mrs. Compton. "Have you seen my husband! Look at what your son did to him!"
Jack looked at the huge scar where Danny's ectoplasmic blast had hit him back in Horrick's mansion. "Wow, that's quite a mole you got growing on you."
"You idiot!" Compton yelled. "It's a scar your son gave me when he was fooling around with your ghost equipment!"
"Oh no," Danny thought to himself. "I guess they couldn't see me too well when they were trapped in that sphere-like thing in Horrick's mansion. I guess they couldn't even see Mr. Compton when they were locked in there."
"My husband tells me that your son was fooling around with your ghost equipment as if they were toys and accidentally hurt my husband with it," Mrs. Compton shrieked.
Danny's insides began boiling with rage. He looked Compton in the eye and yelled, "That's not what happened and you know it!"
"Don't lie, Danny!" Mr. Compton snapped. "You were playing with your dad's Fenton Bazooka and fired it right at me."
Danny wanted nothing more than to go ghost and punch Compton in the face, but that would only lead to more and more trouble.
"What do you want?" Maddie asked, putting her hands on her hips.
"We want to settle this issue in court," Mrs. Compton replied coldly. "We're going to get what we deserve, and so will you."
"You can't take this into court!" Danny yelled, jumping in.
"We can and we did," Compton said, giving Danny a malicious look. "We've hired a lawyer and he is filing a lawsuit for us as we speak."
Both of them walked away, leaving Danny, his family and friends staring at them, wondering what they were going to do. They did their best to try to react calmly, but everyone was clearly worried, including Sam and Tucker.
Despite the obvious problem that was now facing the Fentons they decided to try to balance their problems anyway by going to Grease City anyway. Of course, no one could really enjoy it that much, particularly Danny. Because of a lie about him, his parents were now going to be sued. Compton now felt like much more of a threat now.
Danny eventually came up with a solution. Normally, an idea like this would be way too dark for him, but Compton has pressed his luck a little too far, and now Danny thought he really needed to pay for it.
"I could always go into my ghost form and fire rays at Compton until he's dead. Or maybe I should just destroy everything in his house. No, he'd immediately know it was me who did it and only push my parents further into a lawsuit. Why don't I just destroy both of them? No…I'm not a killer."
Danny tried to sleep his problems off. At least by sleeping he would get some peace. Who knows? Maybe in the morning he'd have an idea on how to deal with Compton and to at least get him to cancel the lawsuit.
But as Danny woke up, he found that he had no ideas. To his disappointment, he had no better idea on how to convince Compton the lawsuit was a bad idea. Luckily, now that he thought fighting him or Horrick would no longer be a problem, he was actually able to enjoy school a little more.
Danny went into school as always, and for some reason, he was feeling a lot happier than he had been the past few days, and it really surprised everyone, including Danny's teachers.
A time came in the middle of the day when the juice he had with breakfast had run its course. After excusing himself from class for a minute or two, Danny started walking down the halls to his school and headed towards the bathroom.
As Danny walking into the bathroom, he was thrown back from a giant explosion that came out of the bathroom. He landed hard on his back, but was lucky to still be alive. He looked up and saw a giant fire blazing out of the boy's bathroom.
No sooner did the explosion erupt from the bathroom did the fire alarm and emergency sprinklers go off. Since there was a real fire this time, everyone burst from the classroom in a state of panic, screaming at the top of their lungs as they raced through the door.
Since no one was paying attention except to where the door was (along with noticing that their new shoes were getting wet), Danny took the opportunity to figure out what was going on.
After no one was in sight, Danny stood up and transformed into his ghostly half. He pushed his way through the raging flames from the bathroom and ran inside. It felt like he was in an oven, but he wanted to see where the fire came from to see if there was any way he could stop it.
The entire inside of the boys' bathroom seemed to be turning red, whether it was the walls, the stalls or the sinks. Danny didn't want to touch any of them fearing that he would get burned if he did.
Danny looked through every part of the bathroom. It was getting really hot in there, and he didn't want to stay in the enclosed ignited room too much longer. After checking every square inch of the burning restroom, Danny was shocked with what he found in it.
