-The Docks-
The lake was iced over but he doubted it would matter. The trick was getting him close enough to the shore…
Danny stopped and waited for the monster to catch up. As soon as it was close enough, it lunged for him, but he went intangible and went right through him. The monster looked confused for a second but then figured it out. He turned around. Danny almost had him now… he shot a beam at him and it took a step backwards, but it was a little too far.
Its heal broke through the ice on the shallow end, and it immediately hopped out of the way, its face showing a mix between pain and surprise. With no time to lose, he copied what he had done earlier, and charged at the things chest, using all of his strength to knock him down. The thing fell slowly, grasping at anything to help him regain his balance. As gravity took over his job, Danny flew back to watch the beast fall. Suddenly, one of its hands gripped his chest; it's claws digging in to his back. Danny yelled in pain and tried to wiggle out of its grasp.
Danny thought about going intangible too late. It became apparent that if the monster was going down, Danny was going down along side it. The thing crashed through the ice and in to the freezing depths of the lake, Danny still in his clutches.
As soon as Danny hit the water, all thoughts seemed to stop. The bitter cold of the water seemed to pierce every inch of his skin. He yelled out, but he made no noise. He couldn't think, he couldn't breath; he could only feel the pain.
Suddenly he felt the hand around his chest disappear. It took the thought a second to register. He knew he had to get out of the water, fast.
Before he faded to unconsciousness, he swam up to the surface. As soon as his head broke the water, he was coughing and spluttering. Mostly his instincts swam him over to the edge of the ice and he forced his muscles in to action to pull himself up. He was barely able to make it back up on to the ice.
As soon and he did, he rolled over on to his back, his whole body shivering. The freezing wind and snow wasn't helping the situation either. He realized with a sinking heart that he was going to freeze to death here.
All of the sudden green filled his vision and he was thrown ten feet backwards with an intense burning on his side. He blinked a few times to clear away the tunnel vision he was going in to. Finally he was able to see who it was. He gasped.
"Hello Ghost Boy. So glad we could meet again."
"D- D- Death Toll?" Danny stuttered out, teeth clattering together. This was the last thing he needed right now.
"I see you've figured out my experiments one weakness. Or two I should say, water and stupidity." All Danny could do is shiver. He needed to move, he needed to move to stay alive. It's a good thing it's harder for ghosts to get cold, or he would probably already be dead.
Danny started to get up, slowly. "What do you want this time?" he asked, trying to get him to monologue so he could pull himself together.
"Strictly vengeance." He said pulling out the same gun he used at Starbucks. He started switching the gears and once he found the one he was looking for, he pointed it at Danny. "Good-bye brat." He spat, and pulled the trigger.
So much for the monologue… Danny had no time to slowly get up, and using all of his might he rolled away from the blast. He quickly got to his elbows and with out looking, fired an ectoplasmic blast at him. It missed but the distraction gave Danny enough time to get to his knees. This time he aimed three shots at Death Toll, and he was barely able to dodge them.
Danny grinded his teeth together, and stood up and took off. His body was screaming at him to some how warm up, but he didn't have the time. Suddenly he felt Death Toll grab on to leg. He swung him around threw him in to a building. He hit his head rather hard and stars burst in front of his eyes. Great. He was losing and he knew it. He needed to concentrate.
Death Toll flew at him, his arm drew back, and ready to hit but Danny rose ahead of him and fired an ectoblast at him. Death Toll was sent hurtling in to the ground. As soon as he landed he just sent back up another shot at Danny and he was sent flying back, landing on a building's roof. Death Tool zoomed up on to the building right as Danny was getting up.
"Bring it on ugly!" Danny yelled at him still shivering violently. Death Toll tried to hit off his face but Danny leaned to the right, so instead he tried to hit him in the stomach, but Danny quickly backed up. Then Danny swung down and kicked Death Tolls feet from under him. Death Toll fell to the ground, and Danny charged towards him, but he simply kicked Danny over him.
Danny was able to flip around and land on his feet, turning around in time to see Death Toll spring up and fire ectoplasmic blasts at him. He dodged five of the blasts, but then sent one of his own to deflect the sixth. Looking at Death Toll to see why he stopped, he saw that he was charging up one that was even bigger than the one he sent at the monster.
Suddenly Death Toll spun around and sent the shot at Danny. Danny hopped up and flew away from the building as fast as he could, but it wasn't fast enough. The explosion sent him hurtling through the air. Landing on the other building across the street. Danny looked at the fire springing up from the building and another worry was added to his list. Were there people in there? Danny groaned. "Will this night EVER get easier?" He yelled to himself, going intangible and flying in to the building.
He landed in what looked like an office. It was totaled. Flames danced around the place, it seemed everything was on fire. Well, at least he got warmer with the heat. The place was hot!
"Hello?" Danny yelled looking around. "Is anybody in here?" No answer. He listened for a few more seconds and then went to explore the rest of the floor. He went out in to the hallway. Suddenly he heard someone coughing, he looked around and saw a woman, maybe in her thirties, on the ground. He quickly flew over to her.
"Need some help?" Danny asked, already knowing the answer. He picked her up, bridal stile, and flew her out of the building. She was barely conscious. "Hold on." He said to her as he flew her down to the ground. He set her down gently across the street, but she seemed to be shaking her head no. "What's wrong?" Danny asked her looking back up at the building. "Is there more people in there?" He asked urgently.
The lady nodded and whispered out hoarsely, "My baby… and my husband."
"Is that all?"
"I-I think so…" She answered, coughing.
"Okay, stay here. Help will be on its way soon." He said hearing sirens. Then he quickly flew back up getting ready to go back in to the building, but suddenly Death Toll appeared in from of him, his red cape scorched.
Danny couldn't help it. He tried holding it in because the last thing he needed was to make Death Toll angrier, but he started laughing. "You're little plan back 'fired' didn't it?" He asked, air quoting "fired". Death Toll growled and swung at his chin. Danny was still laughing at the time and didn't expect it. He was thrown in to the air until he was able to regain himself. Then Death Toll came for him again, but Danny sent an ectoplasmic beam at him and it sent Death Toll spinning to the ground. Finally getting back on task, he flew back in to the building. He started calling out again, looking for the husband or the baby, but he didn't hear anything. Danny coughed; the smoke was starting to get in to his lungs.
Finally Danny saw something through the smoke. There was a man outside in the hallway, unconscious. Danny hurriedly picked him up and flew him out of the building. Death Toll appeared above him though and kicked Danny in the back. He cried out, accidentally dropping the man as he was falling himself, but he quickly caught him again. Danny flew him down next to the woman, who hadn't moved. She had tears poring down her face. As soon as the husband was next to her she hugged him tightly. Two down, one to go.
Danny turned around after dropping the man off but suddenly Death Toll grabbed his arm and swung him to the ground. There was a pop as his shoulder was pulled out of his socket. Danny yelled as he hit the ground. As Death Toll went in to hit him while he was down, Danny went intangible and melted in to the ground. Death Toll just punched a deeper hole in to the ground. Danny now invisible flew back in the building to get the baby.
As he arrived, he looked down at his useless arm. It was killing him, but he didn't have time to worry about that now. He listened for crying. Nothing. There was so much smoke that he couldn't even see his own hand when he stuck it out. Danny coughed again. His eyes were burning and he was starting to feel dizzy from lack of oxygen. Danny groaned, leaning against the wall.
All of the sudden he heard a creaking. He looked up and saw the ceiling starting to melt down. In a wave of heat it burst open, several flaming beams from the roof falling down. Danny flew out of the way, but not before one hit his already dislocated arm. Danny cried out and took a few deep breaths, trying to help the pain go away but it didn't help much.
Suddenly he heard it! There was a faint crying down the hall. Danny flew down to it. It was the last room in the hallway. Danny phased through the door and saw the baby in its crib. He quickly flew over to it. It seemed to be okay. Danny picked it up with his good arm and made them both intangible as he heard another creak. He flew them through an open window right when the house started to collapse slowly.
The mother across the street screamed, and started sobbing. Danny made the two of them visible and flew the baby over to the sobbing mother. As soon as she saw them, the sobs turned in to tears of joy. Danny placed the child in her arms and she kept saying, "Thank you" over and over again. The neighbors who had come out to see what all of the commotion was started clapping.
"Don't mention it." Danny said waving if off, but then his ghost sense went off. He ducked with out even looking as a flaming beam swung at his head. He wasn't expecting the flaming beam, but he was expecting Death Toll. The small crowd gasped and all backed up as far away as possible. The ghost swung at him again. Danny flew back to avoid it. As Death Toll got ready to swing it again, Danny blasted it out of his hands. Death Toll was so surprised that he didn't even notice Danny threw a blast at him too, well that is until he was thrown across the street.
Death Toll growled and went intangible and invisible and disappeared from sight. Danny looked for him around the spot he disappeared. Suddenly, from the opposite direction, a small car came flying at him. Danny saw it with the corner of his eye and went intangible. Death Toll then picked up another car, with some difficulty he noticed.
Death Toll was able to bring it above his head while Danny closed one of his eyes and aimed carefully. Then Danny sent two blasts the crook of his arms, and as soon as they hit, Death Tolls arms collapsed over him and the car landed on top of him.
For a second nothing happened. Danny flew a bit closer to the car, still keeping a safe distance away. All of the sudden the car was blasted off him, and landed quite a distance away. Death Toll got up slowly, looking a bit dazed. If he had it with him, Danny would have sucked Death Toll in to the thermos, but currently, that was not an option. "That's for knocking me out for five days!" He yelled at him.
Then Danny flew, hovering around 100 miles per hour, towards him, and hit the ghost in the stomach. Death Toll flew back and hit another car parked on the street. "That's for locking us all in Starbucks," and then Danny sent his ghost stinger at him, shocking him for a moment, but then letting him fall back to the ground. "And that's for making me transform in front of everyone!" He yelled, finally landing on the ground. Death Toll groaned and got up. He looked livid. Suddenly he disappeared. Danny sighed. "What are you scared? Why don't you fight face to face?" All of the sudden, he appeared again and picked Danny up by the throat.
"It not about fighting nobly, its about strategy, now this is the last straw." He growled and threw Danny to the ground. Danny landed on his dislocated arm and hissed in pain. Death Toll took out his gun and pulled the trigger. Glowing green ropes wrapped around Danny, not allowing him to move. He tried to phase out of them, but nothing happened. He was stuck.
Suddenly Danny started to feel tired. He looked down at the ropes. It was glowing the same green as the dagger was. "What's wrong with these?" Danny asked looking down as another wave of exhaustion hit him. Death Toll ignored him while he switched gears on his gun. This time Danny was able to see the little pictures. Some of the ones he passed were what looked like a white bomb, a red beam, a green beam, a red and green beam combined together, a red skull, and a green skull, and a red and green skull divided down the middle. This is the one he landed on.
Then he decided to answer his question. "It's Ghost Energy Extractor, if I keep you in the rope long enough, eventually you will get knocked out and be destroyed, but I don't intend on keeping you here that long." Then Death Toll debated on where to aim the gun. Finally he settled for his head.
"Any last words Ghost Boy?" Danny's just scowled up at him. His dislocated arm was causing him a lot of pain, and his frostbites and burns hurt, not to mention his sore bruises and stinging cuts.
"Well it's your loss then." He said firing it up. "I can't say it was a pleasure knowing you." Danny closed his eyes and turned his head as if to protect himself. This was really the end… he didn't see how he would squirm out of this one.
The sound of a blast echoed around the street and green light penetrated through his eyelids. He waited to feel the blast that would end his life but it didn't come. He opened one of his eyes when he heard a familiar sound. His heart flew when he saw a silver RV skid to a halt. Suddenly the odds were evened by the Fenton Assault Vehicle.
Guns appeared out of every place possible and they were all aimed at Death Toll, who was getting up after being hit out of the way. With out warning, they all fired at the ghost, in a bright mixture of red, white, purple, but mostly green. Danny was rather enjoying watching Death Toll trying to dodge all of them. He was failing miserably.
Soon Danny felt his eyelids grow heavy and he remembered about the ropes. He started to try and get himself out of them. He tried to phase out of them again, but that didn't help, so he tried to push his way out of them but that didn't work either. 'Huh…' Danny thought. He had no idea how to get out of this.
Suddenly one of the blasts that Death Toll was able to block came spiraling at him and not being able to do anything, he could only watch as it came closer. He closed his eyes as it hit him, but for some reason, he only felt the impact. He looked down and saw the purple goo was eating away at his ropes. "Well, I guess that works to." He said to no one in particular. Soon his arms were free and he was able to slip out of the ones binding his legs.
As soon as he fully stood up Death Toll fell down, covered in the goop. As soon as the firing ceased, the ghost phased out of it all and disappeared from sight. 'That's not good' Danny thought and scanned the area. He didn't see him anywhere. His parents were doing the same, using different scanners trying to pin point him.
All of the sudden the Assault Vehicle was lifted in to the air by something invisible. Danny watched in horror as the car was thrown towards the third story of a building. Jumping in to action, Danny flew as fast as he could towards the RV and phased in to it. His father was screaming and his mother was banging on a red button labeled, "Jet Plane" looking slightly panicked.
Danny realized that the Assault Vehicle wouldn't be able to transform in to a plane before they hit the building and so he placed his uninjured hand on his dad's shoulder and forced his dislocated shoulder to grab hold of his mom's. His parents didn't even turn around to see what had grabbed hold of them. They had given up on all chances of survival and were now watching the building draw closer.
Danny knew his dislocated shoulder wouldn't be able to carry his mom out, so he went intangible, focusing his powers to reach out to them as well. As soon as they were all safe, it crashed in to the building, sending them all flying from the car and into the building.
Danny tried holding to the both of them, but the force of the impact forced his shoulder to be jerked forward, and he cried out in pain, letting go. They were all sent tumbling to the floor, slamming in to a wall in different positions. Jack was sent head first, kissing the wall, Danny landed upside down, his feet up the wall, and Maddie was the only one that landed up right, her back against the wall. Danny and Jack righted themselves, both groaning.
There was a very awkward pause afterwards. Nobody really knew what to say. Danny rubbed the back of his neck nervously and said, "Uh… aren't you going to attack me or something?" They just stared at him as if they didn't hear what he said. "Okay…" Danny said under his breath, but (dare I say it,) luckily Death Toll phased through the wall breaking the awkward silence.
All at once, Jack and Maddie pulled out large guns strapped to their back and Danny fired up an ectoplasmic blast. As one, they fired and Death Toll broke out of the building, chunks of cement raining down on the sidewalk below. Danny flew out of the hole, but his parents were forced to find some stairs to get out of the building.
While his parents were busy Danny flew down to the smoking figure that was Death Toll. He picked his up by the front of his tattered red cape. "If you EVER throw another sucker punch at my parents like that again, you will be sorry that you went on to have an after life." Danny growled so only Death Toll would hear. Then Danny threw Death Toll in to the building his parents had just exited out of.
While he parents dealt with Death Toll, Danny flew over to the ruined RV. The front of the car was demolished, as was the back when it fell back to Earth, but there was just enough room for Danny to phase in to the middle. It was a tight fit, but he materialized. It looked as if a tornado had gone through it, but it only fazed Danny for a moment. He quickly started searching for anything that would help. All of the stuff that used to be on shelves was now crashed to the ground, either ruined or a bit roughed up. Suddenly he saw it, the thermos.
Danny quickly grabbed it, and went back out to help his parents. His parents had him pretty worked up. Death Toll was trying desperately to retaliate, but he couldn't touch them. He was scowling and cursed loudly every time he was hit with something. Finally Death Toll spotted him. "YOU!" He screamed.
He looked at him lazily. "Hi!" Danny replied sarcastically. The Ghost flew towards Danny at his top speed and knocked him to the ground, Death Toll landing on top of him. After skidding to a halt, Danny kicked Death Toll over him and quickly flew to his feet. The ghost landed a few feet away. With out a word, Danny uncapped the thermos and pressed the button labeled capture. Death Toll screamed in rage as the beam sucked him in.
As soon as he was in the thermos Danny capped it, and fell to his hands and knees to catch his breath. The few people that were brave enough to stay and watch the fight started applauding. Danny looked up and wearily waved to them. Slowly he got back up and took off towards the hospital until he heard, "Phantom, wait!" He stopped and turned around to see his mom and dad standing there, looking uncomfortable.
"Y- Yes?" He replied, surprised that his parents weren't trying to capture him.
"W- we just wanted to thank you." His mom said sincerely, but still a little nervous looking.
Danny looked at them blankly. "For what?" He asked, if possible even more surprised.
"For saving my son at Starbucks. It means a lot to us." His dad chipped in, looking him in the eye.
Danny was confused, and it showed on his face. 'I should ask Jazz about the cover up story…' he thought, and decided he should just go along with it.
"Oh! That… yeah, no big deal." He said trying to shrug, but he remembered his dislocated shoulder painfully.
"But it is a big deal… but I have one question." His mom stated.
Danny inwardly winced… He hoped he would be able to answer it with out ruining the cover up story. "Okay…" He said urging them on.
"Why did you help him, I mean after all we've done to you?" She asked, looking a bit guilty.
Danny let out a breath that he didn't know he was holding. That was a simple answer. "Because it's the right thing to do." He simply stated. There was a pause. It looked as if his parents were seeing him in a whole new light.
"Well, I've gotta go." He said after a moment. This seemed to snap his parents out of their train of though.
"So do we. Thanks again." His mom said. Danny turned around and flew off towards the hospital. Suddenly Jack thought of something and gasped.
"MY CAR!" He said turning and looking at the broken vehicle. Maddie patted him on the back comfortingly as he cried over the loss.
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TBC…
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