I am getting way too deeply interested in the ghost sense. I rewatched some Vlad and Dani episodes to see the behavior of the ghost sense. Its an interesting power, but I am going to use my own theories on how the ghost sense works, made from the information the show gives. Don't get mad at me if you don't like my idea of how it works plz!

Yeah, this chapter was originally gonna be something completely different than what it became. I like how it turned out though.


Chapter 18: Swarm

"Man, that ray is worse than the original thermos!"

Danny was home, released by Sam. They were in the secret lab, trying to find out what happened to the laptop. Danny wasn't quite helping as much as he complained about getting captured in his own, very cramped, weapon.

"I mean, how humiliating is it to have some ghost sneak up on you and trap you in your own weapon! You wouldn't know, but I sure do!"

Sam tried to tune out his complaining while she was writing code on a flash drive.

"It doesn't help that it was super tiny in there, I'll be sore for hours!"

The irritating whining from the stubborn halfa just didn't stop. Sam was getting more annoyed by the second.

"And my ghost sense didn't even go off, it was like I-"

"STOP IT!" Sam yelled, interrupting the whining. She typed a few more lines of code. "Hold on, your ghost sense didn't go off?"

"Yeah, I was ten feet in the air, trying to approach that kid with the laptop in his backpack, and all of a sudden, someone grabbed me from behind and sucked me into the thermos ray. I didn't have time to react!"

"Weird. So, usually your ghost sense goes off once when there's a new ghost around, but won't go off for new ghosts in the area, right?"

"For the most part, yeah. It can go off multiple times, but very rarely though."

"Ok, so your ghost sense never went off at all?"

"It hasn't since the Spectra thing. Maybe... No, the ghost tracker would've caught it a while ago." He paused to think. "Now that I think about it, it never really went off around Vlad or Danielle. I wonder if one of them is involved."

Sam spun around in her chair, giving Danny a look of disbelief. "Vlad was lost in space twenty-two years ago, and we haven't had any contact with Danielle besides a couple phone calls in a couple years. You can't remember every battle, you know, and I know for sure there's probably some anomaly in your ghost sense. It hasn't been used in years before this past week."

Danny sat down in a chair next to Sam's. He said nothing, wondering why his ghost sense never went off.


Somewhere in the ghost zone...

"Keep going! The more power, the better!"

Yoltrun was leading two teams of ghosts, trying to punch a hole to the human world. He didn't get much information while in the human world, but scanning the rogue portals gave him enough to work with. The first team was powering a device that focused their ghost rays to punch through reality. The second team was a team of ten ghosts that would go through the portal to Earth with Yoltrun.

The device was a large metal ring, and if it worked right, it would create a portal in the open middle. The ghosts' rays were what powered the device. Some ghosts were known to be able to create portals with their energy, and this machine replicated it. It required many ghosts, though, and there were fifty ghosts shooting their energy into it.

Yoltrun was unsure if the machine would even work. He had to follow orders to keep his job, though. Plus the fact he wanted to go back to the human world. Many ghosts wanted to go to the human world. It wasn't an obsession, just a ubiquitous thought.

After a while of waiting, the metal ring started to spark with green energy. "Team two, give a bit of power into it! We're almost there!" Yoltrun commanded as he was blasting a few rays into it himself. A small glowing green ball started to form in the center, and as team two was putting more and more energy into it, the ball started to spin, flatten out, and stretch. "Team two, get ready to go! This portal might only last a few seconds if we're lucky!" Yoltrun stood in front of the quickly forming portal, and his team lined up behind him, prepared for what was to come.

The disk of energy reached the edge of the ring. Boom! In a flash of light, the portal was formed. But before he could even say "go," Yoltrun was knocked away. A swarm of ghosts flew through the portal. The portal then collapsed. A hundred ghosts got through, and they weren't his team. They were ant ghosts. And the ones who didn't get through restrained the tired-out team one, and team two was fighting swarms of the evil ants. Yoltrun blasted away a few of them. He gathered his strength, and grew. It was his beast form. It took a lot of energy, but he needed the power.

He grew to nearly ten times his size. His fingers grew razor-sharp claws. His tail gained four blades. He sprouted two horns from his head and his eyes burst into red fire. He clawed away the ants from team one. "Run, team one, go get help!" he ordered. Team one flew off. He helped out team two, but in the distance he saw an army of ant ghosts. Behind that army, a giant, winged ant ghost. The queen.

"Fight hard, team two! I'm gonna take out that army! Protect the machine!" And with that, Yoltrun charged at the army.

He rammed into them with his horns. The ones skewered by the horns fizzled into mist. The ones that avoided that fate were clawed and slashed and knocked away. They fought, but couldn't win.

Yoltrun roared, then charged at the queen. Her forces were too destroyed to protect her. She was the same size as Yoltrun. She charged at the already charging Yoltrun, grabbing him by the horns at high speed and throwing him away. Yoltrun whipped his tail at her as he turned around, slicing one of her four arms, then dashed at her claws forward.

The queen lacked the strength Yoltrun had, but made up for it in agility. She dodged her claw attacks and scratched him in the back with her own claws. They weren't as sharp as his, but they still did damage.

Yoltrun did a frontflip, chopping off one of her claws with his tail blade. While she was distracted by the loss of a finger, Yoltrun attacked with his claws, scratching her deeply. She was oozing with her own ectoplasm. She tried to get in close for an attack, but Yoltrun's claw attacks were too strong.

So, the queen used her agility to her advantage.

She quickly flew around Yoltrun's back, going straight in to bite the neck with her vicious, deadly mandibles that had the power to break through solid titanium.

Yoltrun, just in time, jerked his head back. He punctured the queen right under the eyes. She screeched and backed off, hands on her face. "Retreat! Retreat!" she screamed. She flew off, with her army following her.

He watched them leave, making sure they really were gone. Then, he went back to his team. Help had arrived, but it wasn't needed. Yoltrun shrunk again, panting in exhaustion.

"You ok, guys?"

Jax, one of the ghosts in team two, responded. "Yeah, fine. Thanks for the help. The portal device is still fine, thankfully."

Another ghost, Greenclaw, jumped into the conversation. "We may be fine, but the human world is not. There are at least a hundred ant ghosts there, and we got no way of getting there quick enough to get a formidable army in there to stop them."

Yoltrun growled in frustration. "Let me talk to the boss. I might be able to get some extra troops, both for making the portal and fighting off those ants."

The boss was not a nice ghost. He was the kind of boss that would fire you if you spell his name wrong. But this? There's no saying what kind of punishment Yoltrun would get.