ZAK SATURDAY RETURNS :DDD

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Oh, BTW. This whole story is told from Danny's POV.

What looked to be their version of the Fenton Ops Center flew over us and two ropes dropped down. It was really high up, but you could tell by the shadow it cast that the thing was huge. It was way cooler than ours, too, and…orange. I was always more of a green and blue guy.

The moment I got on the ship, a giant, skinny gorilla came running towards us. When it saw me, it shifted gears from gorilla to jaguar and tackled me. My list of things that give me PTSD grew.

"Fisk, calm down! That's just Fenton. He's a friend."

"Abba ababu bwaaa!" Fisk made it clear that English wasn't his first, or any of its languages.

"Ahhh!" Something lashed at my leg. Something I couldn't see. A ghost?

To my side, there was a ripple, like when you look off into the distance on a hot day and can see heat waves, except these moved and were almost salamander-shaped. The ripples weakened, and a Komodo Dragon materialized, hissing skeptically at me. A half-ghost/half-animal?

I'd known about Komodo Dragons. We learned about them in Mr. Lancer's science class. Either he forgot to mention that they were masters of disguise, or they weren't supposed to do that.

"I see you've met Fiskerton and Komodo," the super-soldier said. "I'm Solomon, by the way. You can call me Doc." Right after that short introduction, Doc walked away. Great. The only normal one isn't much of a talker. Zak and I started following him through the arced blue hallway.

"Are ghosts different from cryptids?" We'd been on the ship for maybe 2 minutes and Zak had already started bombarding me with questions.

I was still pissed off after being attacked by Zak's pets. Why couldn't they have dogs, or cats, like normal people? "Look dude, I don't even know what a cryptid is. If they're not from the Ghost Zone, then yeah."

"Ghost Zone?"

"It's a dimension on the opposite plane of existence from ours." My patience grew thinner. Normally, I'd have been just fine talking about ghosts, and my powers, but something about getting mauled by a gorilla rubbed me the wrong way.

Zak sped up a bit and turned around to face me. "Like the one from the smoke mirror? Also, are you a human that goes ghost, or are you a ghost that goes human?"

At the end of the hallway was a command center. I wasn't in the mood to give a philosophy lesson, so I walked down around a mini dome-shaped section of the room and down a few steps to the top part of an arc-shaped section of floor. Sitting in command pods on the two ends of the arc were Doc and a woman with long white hair in an orange and black jumpsuit.

"Cryptids are the creatures of Earth that regular science hasn't discovered, yet. They're different from the ghosts you're used to," Doc said, having overheard our conversation.

"Wow, you know your stuff."

The woman grinned. "The Secret Scientists research everything out of the ordinary. That includes chimeras, and aliens. I'm Zak's mom, Drew, by the way. Nice to officially meet you, Danny."

Scientists. Well, that explains the jumpsuits. "Nice to meet you, too." The way Drew Saturday introduced herself meant I'd probably seen her before, or at least she'd seen me. "Aliens? Like from outer space?"

Zak butted in, again. Why he thought the two us would get along, I did not know. "Yeah! There's even a guy that can turn into like, a hundred different kinds of them. I'm surprised you've never heard of him. He's all over the news." I think Zak caught on that I didn't care all that much. "We knew about chimeras before Phantom Planet, obviously. We know everything."

Oops, forgot. 'Chimera' is what their calling us half-ghosts, now. I was hoping I could leave that little detail out since I think it's stupid.

"Zak." Zak's parents beat me to it by a second.

"Wait. You knew about me?" I didn't think anyone outside my family and friends knew.

"We started researching chimeras after that stunt you pulled in Antarctica. Dr. Grey was very impressed. You're all she talked about for a good two weeks." Zak said "we" like he was a contributing member to the Secret Scientists.

Skulker was attacking a bunch of scientists in Antarctica a while ago. The scientists seemed to be researching quantum field generators, which Skulker for some reason was very interested in. Probably to give to Vlad. That was the first time I won using my still-sketchy duplication power.

They saw me?

"Wait, you knew I was Danny Phantom?"

Zak crossed his arms and grinned as if it was some sort of accomplishment. "Saw that episode."

My head filled with false ego, and I had the smile to prove it. "I have my own TV show?"

It was Doc who crushed my dreams. "Weird World. It's a show on 'rare and exotic creatures' that our maniac archenemy used to host." He then explained what exactly the Secret Scientists knew about me. "One of the scientists you saved in Antarctica was Dr. Miranda Grey, a Secret Scientist, like us Saturdays. That's how we found out that Danny Fenton was a chimera. We'd never heard of Danny Phantom until two days ago."

I'd seen a few episodes of the show before with Tucker. We had an argument once over whether the creatures Argost was talking about were real or not. With everything I'd seen in Elmerton, I guess Tucker was right.

"It'd be soooo cool to have our own TV shows, though! Ours would be 'The Secret Scie' – no, 'The Secret Saturdays', and yours…"

"The Adventures of Danny Fenton." Hey, I thought it sounded kinda cool.

"How about just 'Danny Phantom'?"

It less of a mouthful, I'll give him that.

"Fine. Where are we going, anyway?"

"We're going to our place."

I was beginning to think Fiskerton could've offered better information than the 15-year-old boy. "Where's home," I expanded in a more annoyed tone.

What Zak said next was the probably first useful thing he'd said all day. "Well, now it's just called Zone 1."