Chapter 14

Danny

Danny was in yet another of Vlad's underground labs, unable to do anything. But this time he was fighting harder than ever despite being restrained in an ectotanium table. "Come on!" Danny yelled, straining his body to try to break free. He couldn't phase through ectotanium, he had to try to break out somehow. He poured more and more ectoplasmic energy into his muscles, pushing them to tear through it. "Jazz needs me to save her from that evil Santa wannabe! COME ON!" Danny screamed fighting as hard as he could. The ectotanium held. Danny finally stopped struggling, it was no good, and he might have to save his ectoplasmic power for later. Once Vlad shows up and lets me out of this table for his latest mad science project, I'm going to kick his butt into next year!

But for now, Danny had to save his strength and turned back into his Human Form. Danny knew what Vlad's plan was, clone him and raise the clone as his 'perfect little son and heir'. He had given that bald guy some of his blood and hair samples for his experiments, and they had already obtained his mid-morph DNA as well. The only reason Danny was still alive was because they left to go finish conquering Earth. Danny suddenly heard the sound of a large vehicle crashing through the wall. "Huh?" Danny quietly said, thinking who could that be? He heard what sounded like people scrambling through the rooms above him and he heard voices.

Danny sucked in air and yelled, "I'm HHHEEEEEEEERRRRRREEEEE!" He then watched as a green laser stabbed through the door. "JOF! YOU NEED TO SAVE JAZZ! THAT BALD GUY HAS HER!" Danny yelled as Jof cut the door down and it was sent flying. Jof walked out, and Danny saw his parents follow her in. Oh crap crap crap crap...how the heck am I going to explain this?! "Mom, Dad, it was Uncle Vlad, I don't know what he's…" he started then his Father said, "Save it Danny. The alien woman told us about you and your powers." "YOU DID WHAT!?" Danny yelled at Jof. Jof waved her hand and the restraints opened up before she explained, "Your planet is in danger, your sister is in danger, we're all in danger now; this is no time for secrets."

Danny looked at her then looked at his parents. "Mom, Dad, I…" "Just…tell us how it happened," Maddie sadly said. Danny took a deep breath and said, "Last year when you built the Ghost Portal, I went into it with my white jumpsuit and accidentally turned it on. I don't know how, I remember being blasted with ectoplasm, screaming, it felt like I was being ripped apart molecule by molecule then stitched back together again. I blacked out and woke up like…this." Danny then went Ghost in front of his parents; their eyes nearly bulged out of their skulls as white rings flew up and down his body, turning his black hair white and blue eyes glowed green while his clothes turned into a black jumpsuit with white belt, boots, and gloves and DP symbol on his chest. "It was you…" Maddie whispered as she ran up to him and hugged him, "Oh God Danny, I'm so sorry! I didn't know! I'm so sorry!" Jack wrapped them both up in a hug and said, "Son, once all this is over I have a lot to make up to you." "Oh how touching," the cynical voice of Vlad Masters said as he walked into the room.

"Vlad, how could you do this!?" Maddie yelled at him. "How!? Ask that stupid oaf of a husband of yours how! It's all his fault that I became this!" Vlad yelled as he went Ghost. "You think a case of bad acne was all that happened when he activated that prototype portal in my face!? Daniel might have suffered, but it was only for an instant, it was nothing but slow and painful for me as the ectoplasm spread throughout my body over an entire year! While you," Vlad pointed an accusing finger at Jack like a mad god passing judgment, "were running off with Maddie, I was suffering worse than any cancer patient ever did! Every second I prayed for Death to just end it! But when it was over, I was even more powerful than any human could hope to be! And all it cost me was the love of my life!"

"Vlad, we-we're friends, just tell me how I can make this better," Jack pleaded. Vlad grinned at him like a shark as he floated up into the sky, "You can help me by dying!" Vlad blasted a massive ghost ray at him, only for Danny to get in front of his Dad and block the blast with an ecto-energy shield. "Vlad you're one seriously crazed up Froot Loop," Danny said before making three more copies. "I may be a Froot Loop, but I'm a Froot Loop with an army!" Vlad yelled as red laser blasts came through the hole in the door. Jof jumped a the wall, her lightsaber moving in a green blur as she deflected the laser blasts. "I'll handle this, stop that madman!" She yelled as the lasers stopped long enough for her to jump through the hole.

Jack and Maddie blasted their ecto-guns at Vlad who dodged them quickly and made five copies. Danny's and Vlad's flew around the room exchanging ghost rays while Jack and Maddie desperately tried to control their fire to only hit the Vlad's while not hitting their son and his copies. One of Danny's copies was blasted away followed by another while one of Vlad's was destroyed in response. "They're moving too fast!" Jack yelled as he jumped away to dodge a ghost ray. "Concentrate on one at a time!" Maddie yelled. Jack and Maddie fired at a Vlad copy that had just destroyed Danny's last copy and destroyed it. Danny and his parents concentrated their fire on another Vlad and destroyed it too. Danny made two more copies and all three of them got into beam exchanges with the last three Vlad's.

Jack and Maddie blasted one Vlad copy just in time to save Danny's copy then quickly avenged another loss of a Danny copy when they finally had the real Vlad. He quickly formed an ectoplasmic shield bubble around himself as they blasted at it. "NO! I am the King of the World! I won't lose!" Vlad screamed as he blasted ectoplasm in all directions, knocking Danny, Maddie, and Jack away and destroying the last copy. Vlad went straight for Jack, determined to kill him at least! Jack quickly pulled on one of his Ghost Gauntlets and punched Vlad back. Vlad was sent flying into the opposite wall, giving Jack enough time to put on the other Gauntlet. "Don't make me do this Vlad! Just surrender peacefully and help us save Earth!" Jack yelled at his old friend. Vlad got up and blasted another ghost ray at him and Maddie in response. Maddie blasted back at him while Jack charged forward. Danny saw this and blasted Vlad back, giving Jack the chance to give him a thunderous uppercut that sent him crashing into the ceiling. Danny pulled out his Fenton Thermos and sucked Vlad into it.

Jof

The Force is with me! That was Jof Favrem's only conscious thought as her lightsaber whirled around, blocking blaster shots as she walked forward against the stormtroopers. She felled five before she jumped through the hole she had carved, and deflected back another four, killing the stormtroopers that fired the shots. She finally came close enough to one and slashed through his chest then blocked three more shots before pulling one trooper closer to cut his head off. That's eleven, there are 39 more. Jof let the Force flow through her body as she ran forward, dodging blaster shots as she went before coming across ten troopers. Her lightsaber was a green blur as it sliced through armor and flesh, felling them all. Twenty-nine left, she thought as she sent six more laser blasts at her attackers, killing one with each deflection twenty-three.

Jof soon found herself in a large room and saw what was in it. "My ship!" she yelled then dodged another blaster shot and threw her lightsaber through her attacker, impaling him through the heart and summoned her lightsaber back to her hand. Twenty-two, Jof ran through the room to reach the rest. She nearly bumped into one and quickly decapitated him before moving on to see a small squad of five. She stopped and deflected all their shots back at them, sixteen. She sensed all the rest were above her in the living room of the mansion. I need at least one alive, she thought as she ran through the underground complex and reached an elevator to take her up and deactivated her lightsaber.

She let the Force flow through her and give her body much needed energy for what she was about to do. She ran out of the elevator and found a straggler. Before he could sound the alarm she used the Force to pull him towards her and wrapped her arm around his throat. "Shhh…" she said as she used the Force to slow his pulse and put him to sleep. Fifteen left, Jof thought as she drew her lightsaber and kicked the door in her way. She dodged several shots and jumped up and into the middle of the group of stormtroopers, slicing away and killing ten of them. The Jedi jumped up and back again and deflected three shots back at the shooters. She then threw her lightsaber at the last three. One trooper was smart enough to dodge it, the other two were decapitated. Jof summoned her lightsaber back to her and said, "Surrender, you're the only one left." Jof could sense his fear; she did not want to kill more than she had to.

"DIE JEDI SCUM!" the frightened trooper yelled, and Jof deflected several blasts before she Force pushed him into a wall, knocking him out. Just then Danny, Maddie, and Jack ran into the room, looking at the carnage. "This…this isn't right," Jack said as he looked at the corpses. "I know. But it can't be helped, I managed to capture two of them, we need to restrain them to be interrogated," Jof said. "What are you going to do to them? I won't stand for torturing prisoners, even if they did help take my daughter they're just henchmen doing their job," Jack asked. "I can get them to talk without resorting to that," Jof assured him, and told him where to get the other stormtrooper she had knocked out while Maddie pulled out a weapon she called the 'Jack-O-Nine-Tails' and used it to tie up the one she pushed into the wall.

Jof looked at the one she knocked out and woke him up after taking off his helmet. He looked young, with brown eyes and short red hair. The trooper looked at her and said, "I don't care what you do to me, I'll never reveal anything to you, Jedi witch!" "There's no need for that," Jof said, waving her hand and using the Force to influence her prisoner's mind. The man's aggressive demeanor softened. "There was a girl, about sixteen years with long red hair. Her parents would like to know where she's at," Jof told him. "Yeah, I remember her; she looked like a kid who was way over her head," the prisoner told her, "Last I saw she was taken to the Decimation's brig." "Can you tell us the codes so I can take her parents to her?" Jof asked with a small wave of her hand. "Okay. She's in cell J-573. The code to enter her room is 6-8-3-5-2-0," her prisoner told her. He then turned to Maddie and said, "I hope she's all right. She looked like a good kid." "I'm sure she is," Jof said and put her hand to his head to put him back to sleep.

Jack looked at her and she told him, "He's only asleep until I wake him up. But now the real problem is getting into the Star Destroyer." Just then she had a vision of a massive group of…machines, like starfighters but meant for atmosphere. She watched them attack the Decimation; all of them were destroyed by its guns and TIE fighters. She saw a tent with an older man in a uniform in it, commanding soldiers. "Jof, are you alright?" she heard Danny ask, and she realized she was on her knees. "I just had a vision; I know where we need to go now. We must hurry; many lives are on the line," Jof told them and they went into the Fenton Family Assault Vehicle. "I need to take the passenger seat, I can tell you where to go," Jof told Jack. "Alright," he said, and they all got in and the Vehicle drove off.