Author's Notes: Like in the chapter title, this chapter gets very, very MENTAL. Sorry about the delayed update. I got writers block around…well I can't tell you…you'll have to read it!

TO CalicoKitty13: HAHA! SEE? IT'S FINALLY UP! NOW YOU CAN STOP ASKING IF IT'S DONE!


Chapter VII

Exper-i-mental

"Dr. Igneous?" I asked as I raised an eyebrow.

"Again, you prove you are a mindless ghost." Robert hissed. "This is Dr. Clark Igneous, our top researcher of the rare ghosts department."

Dr. Igneous gave me a crooked smile. "Well, is this the newest ghost-human hybrid to be entered in this amidst?" He asked. I pointedly looked away from his intense stare.

"Newest?" I asked loudly, my heart beat racing. "Wha--who else was here?"

"Please don't say Danni's here!"

"We've had two others," Dr. Igneous answered softly. "One ended up escaping; the other is still in captivity." My stomach dropped.

Igneous came into my view, revealing a man that gave the massive hint of a mad scientist. His eyes were invisible from the intense glare of his glasses. Dark brown locks dangled over his circular spectacles, his eyebrows seemed to be twisted together. His malicious smile cast a spell unto me, freezing me to the spot.

"If you don't mind me asking," I said, mocking politeness, "But can you tell me who they are?"

Dr. Igneous chuckled.

"Well, the one that escaped herself..." A spec of joy shot through me at the word 'herself'. "...I believe her name was...Carleigh? No no...Cindy. Right. Cindy Banshee." My joy disappeared. "The other one...Danielle Phantom."

I growled intensely. "YOU LET HER GO NOW!"

Robert stomped over to Igneous and smacked him in the back of his head. "You may be my best scientist…but you're as thick as a stump sometimes."

Igneous rubbed the back of his head, slightly grunting at his boss. "Why must you constantly hit me?" He whined as if he were a toddler.

"Because!" Robert said shortly. "Now, your assignment for the next few months is to test on this ghost here. Do whatever you want...just be sure you don't lose this one."

Mr. Specterton's remark to Dr. Igneous left me deep in thought. IF this was his best scientist, then I didn't want to know what his worst was like. Igneous walked over to me, an evil grin spreading across his face with evil thoughts most likely in his mind.

I looked away as the mad man approached me cautiously, as did every one in this building. Then I realized, they were all afraid of me, though I couldn't comprehend why. I saw ghosts who were ten times scarier looking then me in the containment chambers.

"All right, you're coming with me." Igneous ordered grabbing my left arm tightly. He lifted me from the chair, but did not realize that the ghost shield was still there. He continuously tried to pull me out, but had no luck. He was unaware that the more he yanked, the more it hurt me. Robert rolled his eyes and pressed the button on the remote to deactivate the ghost shield. Igneous scowled at his boss.

I was dragged against my will back to the elevator. I looked back at Robert who waved me a good-bye. I sneered at him menacingly. I shut my eyes tight as we continued on. I did not want to see what was going to happen next. I heard only three things, the opening and closing of a door and the door locking.

When I gathered the courage to open my eyes, we were in a small white lab. In the center was a grey table with stains of green on it; this was most likely the experiment table. The cupboards had beakers, needles, and many various tools scattered across them un-neatly.

Above the table, was a large rounded device where lights of many colors flashed on and off. I swallowed the lump in my throat with slight difficulty. I wanted to get out as soon as possible.

Igneous threw me onto the table quickly, but gently. From the table came four metal braces that secured me to the table. I attempted to move, but I was completely immobilized. Igneous chuckled as he walked over to his counter.

"Nice try ghost kid." He commented darkly. "You aren't going anywhere."

As he began to tinker with various objects on his desk, my heartbeat increased to a dangerous rate. I did not have any intention of going through with this at first, and I immediately regretted ever allowing these monsters to "take me in." I began to breathe deeply, futility trying to calm myself.

"It'll all be over soon…right?"

Another dark laugh escaped from Igneous's mouth.

"This is perfect! I'll start with this experiment!" He exclaimed happily.

I struggled even harder to escape now as he approached me with a needle filled with a creamy purple liquid. I tried to say something, but I merely stuttered nonsense.

"Wh-whats…what's in….th-that?" I asked in a scared and high pitched voice.

"Ah this…" He stated, putting the needle near my skin. My muscles tensed. "This is a cardiovascular crease stimulant…"

I understood none of the words he spoke, as I raised my right eyebrow. He took this facial expression as a question and to him, a stupid one.

Igneous sighed heavily. "Its main intention is to make a dramatic change in someone in their strength and abilities. And I'm talking ten times their normal power. We've tried it on pure ghosts… nothing ever happened…"

"And humans?" I interrupted.

Another maniacal grin appeared on his face. "They all died within a week."

I let out a slight yelp as the need approached my right arm. How can they do this to people? How do they live with them selves? I felt sweat drip down my face. Igneous showed no sign of remorse when doing this. He looked very amused.

I clenched my eyes and turned my head, tears almost falling from my eyes. I felt the needles soft touch for a moment.

Without remorse, he jabbed the needle into my arm. I screamed bloody murder at his sudden attack. I could feel the liquid enter my veins slowly, but uncomfortably.

Igneous laughs were louder than ever, but my screams drowned out his cackles. I felt Igneous pull the needle out of my arm, but the pain was still there, and it was becoming stronger.

I tried not to shriek from pain any longer. The sound of them only pleased Igneous as I would assume. I opened my eyes slowly to look at the wound left from the needle. Where I expected to be blood, there was green ectoplasm pooling from the wound. I gasped in the reoccurring pain.

My muscles began to feel strangely, they weren't contracted as I would think they would, but they had an unexpected feel of being relaxed. I started to feel lightheaded and dizzy. I saw Igneous hang his head over mine. He observed my condition.

"Do you feel tense...or do you feel relaxed?" He asked stroking his chin.

I gasped as a shock of pain shot through my veins again. Whatever he had injected in me, it was working very quickly. I felt the urge to answer his question, no matter what my conscience told me to do.

"I...I kinda...feel...re-relaxed..."

Igneous grabbed a clipboard and jotted a few notes down, nodding his head.

"And do you feel pain at all?" He asked turning his head back to me.

"N...No..." I had said at first, until the surge of pain returned. "I mean...yes..."

Igneous's eyes became filled with excitement as he wrote more on his clipboard. "Excellent, you're reacting in the way it supposed to in the first place!"

In all my life, from facing the Ghost King to defeating my older self, I had never been as frightened as I was now. There was nothing I could do but lie there and let the poison Igneous injected in me spread throughout my body.

"You're…You're…" I tried to say, but my mind would not cooperate. "You're…a despicable, horrible, and vile man! An insult to sane people and if I could…I'd…make sure you're death was slow…painful…"

He merely smirked at my trouble as I took in deep, painful breaths.

Where my rampage had come from, I was unaware of. I was feeling less and less like myself every second that slowly passed.

"Aggression...that's new..." Igneous remarked, reaching out for his clip board again.

I began to struggle even harder to get off of the table. My actions were not controlled by myself though.

The agony of it all made me want to die right there and then. Whatever this mad scientist had put in me, it was not and never should have been there.

"Your session for today is through for now." Igneous said.

I was unhooked from the table, but my freedom did not last long. Igneous grabbed my wrist and lunged me off into the corner. I was slammed into the wall on my back.

Igneous reached into his pocket again only to pull out a pulled out a miniscule box with various buttons on it. He pressed a yellow button and spoke into it. "Bring the other hybrid in...I'm done with the male."

"No, not her! Please!" I shouted, about to cry yet again.

I heard footsteps and a female voice that sounded as if she was struggling for her life approach the lab's door

"Let me go!" The girl's voice rang through my ears. "You-You-You'll be sorry!"

Two guards burst into the lab with a squirming little girl in their hands. My stomach sank as I realized I was right. It was Danielle.

"No!" I shrieked again, this time standing up. "Leave her alone!"

"Danny?" Danielle said turning her head to me. "Is that really you?"

Feelings of rage were welled up inside me, ready to express themselves...but not in a good way. I felt a sudden urge...an urge to kill. I clenched my fists as they began to glow a bright, neon green.

"I meant what I said," I hissed in a dark voice. I furrowed my brow and looked up at Danielle, whose wide eyes were filled with fear.

I shot an ectoplasmic blast at the guards, missing them intentionally. The two yelped as they jumped back.

"Let her go NOW!" I hollered shooting at them again.

"Restrain him!" One of the guards shouted as they let Danni go. They sped towards me in an attempt to get a hold of me. I dodged them with ease.

I continued to shoot the two with my ghost ray able to actually hit them a few times. Danielle was in total shock of my actions. She backed away into the left corner, staying away from the danger.

I grabbed a guard by his collar, preparing to punch him in the face. Sweat was running down his cheeks. He clenched his eyes tight.

"Someone, call for back up! This guy's a maniac!" He cried loudly.

Igneous pulled out his communicator yet again this time pressing a red button. He spoke into it frantically.

"This is Dr. Clark Igneous, scientist 6296, requesting back up in private lab 42-k. We have a code 62. I repeat, private lab 42-k, code 62!"

Immediately after his announcement, an influx of guards flew through the door. I took my chance, threw my punch at the guard in hand, and ran. The words "Get him" and "Seize him" floated in the air. It became more difficult to avoid the increased amount of guards.

"Danny, let me help!" Danielle shouted as she got on her feet.

"No way!" I replied, jumping on top of the counter. "Stay down!"

The guards had now pulled out small sized guns. The one closest to me fired, nailing my in my right leg. I fell right into the pack of guards, that being the worst place to fall. I was immobilized by both my arms and legs.

I managed to kick the guard who had a hold of my left leg, knocking that guard into another. I heard multiple blasts from behind me. Three guards fell to the floor afterwards, including the one who seized my right arm.

"Let go of my cousin!" Danielle shouted shooting at another guard.

A deep voice called out from the doorway, interrupting the commotion. "What is going on in here, Igneous!"

"M-M-Mr. Specterton...I-I'm terribly sorry...I-I-I think it's...it's an effect of the CCS! I did...I mean I didn't mean...for this...this to happen..." Igneous stuttered uncontrollably. "It was all the ghost boy!"

I turned my head to see the man who owned this place once more. He didn't have his annoying smile this time. He was angry. Robert took a glance at me, to Igneous, to me again. He sneered as the glow in my eyes brightened.

"Take him back to his cell at once. He obviously needs time to cool down." Robert ordered as he turned around and left.

"B-but which cell is his?" One of the guards asked.

"4120." I heard vaguely.

I was seized once more, but I had no energy to do anything about it. I could only look back to see Danielle. She mouthed "thank you" as I was taken away. I could only manage a weak smile as a reply.


It was difficult to get any sleep that night for many reasons. I couldn't stop thinking about what had happened back there. "Why did I act like that?" I'd ask myself constantly.

Another reason: the bed that I was provided with...not the most comfortable.

I also had continuous but short surges of pain. Even if I was able to endure the pain and sleep, moments later I would scream in agony.

"Why do you keep screaming?" The box ghost asked rubbing his eyes. I had forgotten his cell was right across from mine. What a nightmare.

I sighed deeply. "Not that it's any of your business, but I'm guessing it's just more after effects of what they put in me." I said dryly.

"What exactly DID they put in you?" He questioned. What was this? Another interrogation?

"Again...not your business." I replied turning my back to him. "I don't even remember what they called it."

Without warning another crash of pain rushed through my system, but it did not go away. I held back all urges to shriek my pain away, but had no luck. My ear piercing howl echoed in the darkness of the containment chambers, waking the ghosts who were asleep.

I could hardly hear the squawking and barking of the other ghosts over my own. As much as I would have liked to stop, the pain wouldn't. It became more intense, as did the screaming.

Footsteps were added to the commotion. "Who's coming?" I thought with difficulty. I fell off my bed onto my knees, barely enduring the hurt.

"What's going on with this one?" A female voice asked.

"It's a subject of Igneous...he probably injected him with that CCS that he's been bragging about..." A male's voice replied.

I turned my head over to the cell's bars to see almost the whole population of scientists and guards gathered around it. I closed my eyes tightly as the pain became faint. I felt the same feeling I had when I was in Igneous's lab: the feeling of being unable to control myself.

Abruptly, I shot up from the ground, feeling stronger, but not in a good way. Anger consumed me once more.

I prepared an ectoplasmic blast at the bars, startling the crowd who decided to watch me feel this pain. The bright green glow from my hands soon turned into a burst of ectoplasmic energy. It was more powerful than anything I had conjured up in my life. The people surrounding my cage flew backwards.

"Igneous! What have you done?" Another voice shouted.

The bars of my jail cell had been vaporized to ash. Triumphantly, I slowly walked out of the cage. Some of the employees had run off at this point.

"P-Please...Mr. Ghost...spare us! We'll do anything! Anything!" A cowardly guard pleaded. I was quite amused by his begging

"ENOUGH!" The too familiar deep voice shouted. Robert Specterton again...

"I have had it ghost boy! You've only been here one day and I'm already willing to destroy you!" He scolded. I had no remorse for what I was about to do.

I lunged myself towards him, punching him in his gut. He obviously didn't take that well. Robert threw a punch to my head that made mine seem like nothing. I fell to the ground barely conscious.

"That's it! Guards! Take this ghost and throw him in the high security cell!" Robert commanded.

"But..." A guard.

"NOW!"

I tried to stay strong. With all my might, I told myself not to cry. Sam wouldn't want me to do that.

I knew that life was going to be tough for a while, but it was all for my family. I sighed as I was yet again being forcibly moved. Before I was placed in my new "home", I thought one last thing.

"I will survive. I will...I have to..."


Wow…Lot's of screaming this chappie, eh? I hope you liked this chapter as much as I enjoyed writing it! Questions about future events will be ignored…so don't bother asking.

Thank you Forgotten Sacrifice! You didn't do much but say good job this chapter…but you deserve thanks for that right?

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-Serenity the Fallen-