One Tucker Foley walked down the street with a bounce in his step. Amity Park was filled with many people outside enjoying the warmth on this Sunday afternoon, many kids played happily together with the comfort of June looming above them. Even teenagers who would soon face their strenuous exams took time from their day to enjoy the good weather and prosperous time for them. Tucker was one of those teenagers, content in walking at his own pace to the Fenton residents, until a beep came from his PDA and he stopped in the middle of the sidewalk, staring down at the screen.
Before anyone could get upset at his obstruction of the walking flow he yelped in surprise and took off running down the street. This occurrence briefly confused residents who witnessed it but was quickly forgotten, it's was not as though he was attacked by a ghost. Coincidently if a ghost even attempted to ruin this beautiful day the citizens would take the fight into their own hands and crush them into oblivion.
In the Fenton household Maddie Fenton sat fiddling with a new invention that would disrupt structure of any ectoplasm hit with its deadly rays, this invention almost blew up the entire house when the front door slammed open startling Maddie. Tucker Foley blasted through the living room taking the stairs two at a time toward the second floor, a brief shout of "Sorry Mrs. Fenton!" followed him. Jack at this moment slammed open the lab door immediately after, luckily Maddie was immune to the surprise this time.
"No it wasn't a ghost, Jack, it was just Tucker." Jack lowered the bazooka from his shoulder, a disappointed frown marring his face. "Awww," once more he retreated to the lab, most likely to experiment on something insane. Meanwhile upstairs Tucker kicked open the door to Danny's room, gracing them with his presence, Sam and Danny looked up at him with unimpressed eye-rolls. Sam closed the book she was reading, "I didn't think you'd be this excited to study." Danny hovered casually above his bed holding an English book up to his face, "I mean I'm the one who has had no chance to study from ghost fights."
"This is no time for studying people!" He grabbed the books from their hands and chucked them unheedingly across the room, ignoring their protests. "The future awaits us!" Danny sat down properly on his bed, finally obeying the laws of gravity, and glanced at Sam "Is he high on sugar again?" "Danny, that's you." Danny's eyes lit up, "OH YEAH" he popped a seventh peppermint into his mouth, Sam groaned.
Tucker hopped into Danny's chair across the room and started typing frantically, the two other teenager glanced at each other before standing behind Tucker to see the screen. They all looked at a picture of the short man on screen, he was wearing a white lab-coat and large protective googles sat on top his tiny wisp of light brown hair. Reading one of the news headlines Danny mumbled "Dr. Freneza?" Sam's eyes quickly narrowed as she read more, "Hey wait, isn't that the guy who claimed the laws of nature will be irrelevant for we shall be all powerful? The psycho who works with the government to make robot soldiers?!"
Scrolling through the articles, Tucker waved his hand dismissively "Nah, he's not a psycho. The guy's just really into his work, like Mr. Fenton." Danny raised his eyebrow at this comparison "What exactly is his work?" Another picture filled the screen, Sam also got curious "Prosthetics?" "No," Tucker caused more pictures to fill the screen "Cybernetics, like robots and human brains. But his best achievements fall into the class of cyborgs."
"He's worked with the government on many occasions and made dozens of technologically improved soldiers that help our country. Therefore helping us too, unless another reality gauntlet incident happens." Nervous laughter rippled through their group and they all prayed Tucker didn't just jinx them. Danny nibbled nervously on the peppermint in his mouth "Couldn't that be a problem if some ghosts decided they wanted to possess the technology or human parts of the cyborg, or even Vlad." Collectively they considered this in their heads before Tucker shook his.
"That could be a possibility, but, I think he would of already figured it out by now. If not we'll find out soon enough, because Dr. Freneza is coming for a talk in Amity Park! It is…. at our school, tomorrow! Wow yeah, surprise presentation for us then." A puff saw Sam's hair flopping away from her eyes and she leaned closer to the computer "What's the presentation for? You know, besides encouraging us to become robots."
Tucker's affronted gasp was ignored, "Well, Samantha, it's actually about technology to protect humans against ghosts." Danny flopped dramatically back onto the bed, Sam quickly following "Great, so another government sponsored group working on ghost weapons. Maybe they'll be as amazing as the Guys In White, you know protecting all the citizens and trying to kill me." Snorts came from the teenagers on the bed.
Tucker spun around and crossed his arms, glaring at the two unbelievers. "I guess we'll just have to see who's right tomorrow."
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"I was wrong. I was so wrong."
"We could have told you that before you dragged us under the bleachers." Underneath Casper High gym's seating stood the trio, it was quite easy to sneak underneath them since in the middle of this assembly. Dr. Freneza had just started showing cyborgs to a room full of teenagers and science teachers.
Tucker wiped sweat off his eyebrow and looked around nervously "It's not just from his creepy presentation, last night I did some research-" Sam slapped him on the back of the head "And you didn't tell us until now?!" "There was to much risk! I pulled an all-nighter and when I managed to get to school this guys minions were all over it listening in on everything."
Danny, the one with the most life threatening secrets, swore under his breath "Well that's not dangerous to us at all." The three of them briefly quieted and melted deeper into the shadows when one of Dr. Freneza's robotically infused workers stalked past. "I found some inconsistencies in his research and a few hacked government files later I found out why."
Dr. Freneza was currently in the centre of the gym talking about the possibilities of combining robotics and humans to make these cyborgs, only briefly skimming over how they are actually combined. "His illegal nonsense started with mind control, implementing any of his robotics in someone could, with the click of a button, have no will, practically zombies. Endlessly serving him or, if I managed to decode some files correctly, the government too."
Sam sat down on the floor with wide eyes, the two boys quickly followed her "Freaking government. It's not right, they have no right to do that. It's like making them slaves, like-" Danny hugged his knees to his chest "Like what Freakshow did to me, and the other ghosts. It's- it's just messed up, especially with what the government considers their citizens."
Tucker glanced out between peoples legs at the show taking place, a man with what looked to be metal wrapped around his arms was lifting large weights. "That's not all he- He seems to like experimenting on adolescents since the bodies are still developing in that time, better adapting to the technology placed in them. I've managed to link more then half a dozen kidnappings to him so far, after one night of searching."
Sam put her hand over her mouth, Danny bit his lip, hard, and muttered "This guy may be above Vlad level crazy." Those were words the group of three had never expected to hear, or except for that matter. Their horrified thoughts were quickly distracted when all of the students started getting down off the stands, the trio stood up gauging the situation "Is it over? I didn't think it was supposed to end yet-" "Hey you three!"
Beside the bleachers stood one of the Doctor's cyborgs, he wore black clothing cargo pants and a dark t-shirt, half of his face was made up of robotics. "Go with the rest of your classmates." A rough jerk of his head followed, convincing the three teenagers out from under and towards the others who were now gathered in the centre of the gym. Danny covered his movements with nervous quirks and managed to survey the entire room and everyone in it inconspicuously, Sam did the same slipping out a lipstick blaster in case of disaster. Meanwhile Tucker trusted his friends observations and busied himself by starting up an audio recorder, in case the psychopath in front of them revealed something and for later scrutiny on things they hadn't heard or noticed in the time of recording.
Dr. Freneza lifted his arms, raising his face towards the sky, almost like a preacher calling out to the heavens. "You all have an astounding opportunity today, you'd all be the first group I've ever offered this to." He looked down over the group, an almost sadistic smile lining his face, "The government has agreed that all of you deserve it so. What better way for them to protect the citizens of Amity Park then for them to protect themselves?"
Conversations started anew in the crowd of teenagers, Danny and Co stiffened at the implications. Dash the very brave, or dumb, jock shouted out "The government hasn't done a good job so far with that, have they?" Paulina swished her hair to the side "Yeah, the only one protecting us is Phantom!" Murmurs of agreement swept through, Dr. Freneza's eye twitched and motioned some of his cyborgs forwards.
"I doubt Phantom could give you this. From me you will all be cyborgs!" Silence seemed to echo through the gym, "Adolescent bodies adapt better to my technology, so you can see why we're giving it to the teenage population. If you'd all step closer we can begin the process immediately." It was unclear who started it but soon instead of obeying the doctor's orders the entire group backed away even further.
Danny, Sam, and Tucker stood protectively in front of the group, glaring at any cyborg who took even a step towards them. Voices rang out in the chaos "That's against nature, and we live in a ghost infested town." "Is the government really this dumb?!" "I can't be a cyborg, it'll ruin my flawless complexion!" Dr. Freneza practically growled down at them, "Alright kiddies I gave you the choice to go quietly. Now I guess we'll do this by force." He snapped his fingers, three cyborgs instantly appeared at his side in an instant while all the others boxed in the teens together, the teachers had long since been taken care of. The Doctor's cold eyes scanned the crowd soon finding Danny's own fiery gaze, he smirked "Daniel Fenton."
Danny allowed himself to flinch, it wasn't hard knowing things this man had done. "How do you know my name?" Dr. Freneza seemed to ignore his question "The son of Jack and Maddie Fenton, inventors and lead experts on ghost hunting. Now why would you not agree with me, Daniel?" "Because what you've done is wrong. Because human teenagers fighting ghosts is disturbing and dangerous. Because you have a nasty habit of turning people into pawns, or I guess you call them cyborgs."
Nodding to himself Dr. Freneza decided the kid was good, he also knew to much. With a snap three cyborgs came charging at Danny, who in turn stepped closer to meet their approaching forms, keeping the fight away from the others. The first cyborg drew off after being punched in the nose, hard, the second Danny swiftly kicked in the solar plexus before performing a chop to the back of their neck, knocking him out. As he tried to find his third opponent he was knocked brutally to the ground from behind, struggling against the grip was soon proved futile as cyborg number one and three both gripped his arms tight.
Being dragged along, Danny briefly considered using his more ghostly strength to escape but decided that would be overly suspicious. Sam was about to run and help her friend but Tucker pulled her back, shaking his head. Scowling, Sam complied but readied herself to jump in at a moments notice. Helpless, the group of teens watched as one of their own was taken to the centre of the gym, Danny was restrained by the two cyborgs in front of Dr. Freneza. A low growl escaped his mouth as he glared at the man, who only smirked, grabbing Danny roughly by the chin with one hand, tilting his head and inspecting him.
"Yes, so resilient, we'll wipe that right out of you. You'll be a perfect addition to our ranks, young Daniel." Shouts and warnings came from the crowd as one of the cyborgs stepped over the unconscious body of his comrade, towards Danny with a needle in his hand, about to plunge it into his neck. Only form the corner of his eye could he see the needle but Danny knew in that instant he needed to escape, before they could take him out with any sedative.
The only warning Dr. Freneza received was a panicked Fenton's eyes flashing green before the situation went downhill for him. Danny managed to kick one of the cyborgs in the face, with so much power in it that they were knocked unconscious. The cyborg holding onto his right arm only had a moment to be shocked before he was flipped overtop of the fifteen year old's shoulder, slamming into his master moments later. Shouts of triumph soon turned to screams as multiple cyborgs attacked Danny at once and all of the others surrounding the group crept in closer.
Sam and Tucker took down two cyborgs respectively, within seconds they were both on the ground joining their comrades. Screaming, Paulina only had a moment to cover her face as one of the cyborgs made a wild grab for her. Seconds later when no impact came, she opened her eyes to see the cyborg twitching on the ground with burnt plating on the side of it's face, and Sam Manson significantly closer to her holding a steaming lipstick blaster.
Cyborgs were being taken down left and right, a group of four introverts threw themselves on top of a cyborg knocking them to the ground. Jocks and nerds combined their numbers, disabling enemies all around them. At some point it was seen Dash chucked Mickey at a cyborg's face disorienting them, they were taken down in quick progression.
Within minutes the majority of cyborgs had been taken care of, they were overwhelmed by the sheer number of sleep deprived teenagers attacking them. There were only minor injuries given to the non-robotic humans, since the cyborgs had only been ordered to capture. During the fighting some kids had gone off and found the bound teachers in the corner of the gym, who were released. The only fight still ongoing was with Danny and the last two cyborgs standing, they seemed to be the bets fighters out of all of them. In a flash or trained movements one of the cyborgs seized Danny's arm in metal grip, tugging him off balanced, before there could be any retaliation the other cyborg swiped a glowing hand across the back of his neck. The teen cried out in pain, stumbling forwards slightly, as an angry red burn on his neck appeared.
Before any further action could be taken an insane laugh echoed through the gym, just as an entity drifted through the wall intangibly. Technus flew into the gym and over half of the student population still had the audacity to groan. "I, TECHNUS, MASTER OF ALL TECHNOLOGY, HAS SENSED A DISTURBANCE IN THE HIGH SCHOOL!" That happened to be the exact moment Dr. Freneza woke from unconsciousness climbing to his feet once more, shoving the still out cold cyborg off of himself. "Now listen here ghost. I control all of these cyborgs and all of my technology. Soon I will control all of Amity Park!!" Tucker had to stifle his laughter at the fact that he, and a few others, had gotten that on tape.
Technus raised his arms, lab coat flying dramatically in non-existent wind, "Cyborgs? Now I shall take over with a cyborg army!" Glowing spread up his arms and soon all of the cyborgs were surrounded by it. Simultaneously they stood and lurched toward Dr. Freneza completely ignoring the students and staff of Casper High. As they surrounded him a crazed look burned in his eyes as he attempted to get them away "No. NO. I control you! I made you, I AM YOUR MASTER! You can't-" Like glorified zombies the hoard of cyborgs practically dog piled onto the Doctor, silencing him. The ghost responsible smirked down from above.
"Hey Technus!" everyone present looked to the source, Danny Fenton holding up his thermos, "Thanks for the cleanup." With that a blue light shot out from the Fenton thermos slowly sucking Technus inside "NO. Darn you Ph-" With a click Danny sealed the thermos, cutting Technus off mid-rant. Every robotically infused human in the room were out cold, sparks flying from their recently ghost possessed technology. Seconds continued on as dead silence stayed in the gym, the shock was only cut off as Tucker gave a woot of joy. Cheers went around the room, everyone let relief flow through them as they realized the fight was over.
Fifteen minutes later the police arrived at the school only to find bunch of duck taped, mostly unconscious cyborgs and Dr. Freneza . The student population as a whole described the events of what happened, people jumping in when someone missed a detail of skipped over something. Parents arrived checking on their children with worry, the rest of the school day was quickly canceled.
It was promised that any mind controlling used on the cyborgs, possibly innocent citizens, would be deeply looked into and helped as much as possible. The only real problem arose when a government car pulled up as they were all being transferred into police trucks. An official looking man stepped out of set car, after a quick explanation of what happened from a nervous looking officer he scanned over the students a frown marring his face.
"Alright kids I need all of you with solid evidence of Dr. Freneza's guilt to hand it over immediately." Before any other teenagers could even pull out their phones Tucker Foley stepped forwards "Sorry, but you'll be able to look over my evidence later, I'll even send you a link. I mean we can't risk it getting 'lost' somewhere along the way." The government official glared down at the defiant fifteen year old "Where are you putting the evidence, sonny?" Tucker smiled innocently up at him "The internet.
Danny had his arms crossed standing off to the side as Dr. Freneza was placed in a police car, as the officer left he leaned over towards him "You know Doctor, Frenteza means crazy in Esperanto. You lived up to the expectation." With a small shrug Danny turned and walked away heading back towards Sam and his family.
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Thank you all for reading this chapter and generally all stories before that. This chapter's idea was suggested by t-rex989 and I really appreciate this new idea among the others I may now be working on. If anyone has any suggestions for a oneshot let me know and I'll try my best to make it happen. Hope you all enjoyed.