God, I can't believe I had this up typed up already! I wonder why I didn't post it... oh well, here's a update!
Be My Escape
"I can't believe that guy has a Ghostly Wail too!" Arima said as Jazz let Daniel into the room.
They were still meeting in Jazz's room. Jazz now wore a brown tank top, brown skirt, and a fishnet long-sleeved shirt underneath. Arima wore a red shirt that had a black heart with a X on it and jeans; her teal scales tattoo was visible. Kimi was wearing what she wore when Danny and her first met.
"Relax, Ari." Kimi replied. "We can still defeat him."
"Why are you planing on defeating Phantom?" Daniel asked.
Arima scoffed.
"'Cause he's evil." Jazz replied.
Daniel shook his head. "You shouldn't judge a book by a cover." He stated. "Why do you think he's evil?"
The invisible Phantoms thanked him silently for protecting Danny.
The sisters were silent.
Kimi was the first to speak. "I actually don't think he's that evil. Maybe him attacking Plasmius wasn't an act." She suggested. "He could actually be against Plasmius."
Her older sisters glared at her. "WHAT?!" They replied.
"You heard me. I said he may be trying to help us but we keep on threatening him the second we can." Kimi stated as she leaned against the window.
Daniel nodded. "You should give him a chance to say who's side he's on. And if he says Plasmius, then you can mark him as evil, 'kay?"
Jazz and Arima stared at their sister and brother.
"All right, OUT!" They said in unison as they pushed them out of the room. Arima managed to get Kimi out of the room, but Daniel only let Jazz push him as far as the door before turning around at his sisters.
"Give him a chance. And if he's against you, then you can call him evil." He then left the room. "Come on, Kimi. Maybe we can get out minds off of ghosts by talking with Danny and Dani."
The Phantoms quickly phased through the wall that separates Jazz's room from Danny and Dani's. They turned visible and started to turn into their human selves.
"Danny? Dani?" Kimi's voice came from the other side of the wall. "Can we come in?"
"One second!" Danny replied as his and Dani's white hair and green eyes turned black and blue. He unlocked the door and opened it. "Why are you two here? I thought this was around the time when you two would be with Jazz and Arima," He stepped aside and let them in.
Kimi just rolled her eyes and sat down on the bed with Dani.
Danny looked at his older, Masters self for an answer. "There was a disagreement between us and them, so they sort of kicked us out."
"And they won't let you stay there?" Dani asked, though they both knew the answer.
"Not until we agree." Kimi muttered.
They four were silent for a while. Not even the two who believed the Phantoms were evil on the other side of the wall made a sound. And I'm pretty sure that not even Maddie, Vlad, or the sleeping Ray made a peep.
But soon, the Halfas and Daniel all heard something.
Let me out of here!
"Did you hear something?" The sisters, Daniel, Danny and Dani all said in unison.
The Masters, Danny and Dani all stared at each other before they left the two rooms. They all raced down the stairs, through the house, to the area where the steps that led to the basement and down those too.
The six were greeted by a force field.
Well... The sisters, Danny and Dani were. Daniel was able to pass right through and enter the basement. Then he turned to see the Halfas still there, rubbing some body-part. He stared at his younger, Fenton self and the clone, wondering why they didn't pass through the force field too. "I'll turn it off," He said and left their sight.
The Halfas saw the green shimmer of the shield. How they didn't see it before, they didn't know. It faded as it fell. They quickly went through.
They found Daniel in another part of the basement, in the part where the Ghost Portal was.
He turned towards them. "I found him."
The Halfas looked at the cylinder that was filled with green ectoplasm and specks of red, human blood.
But then they saw the thing inside of it.
A pale, spiky-haired male teen.
"Oh my..." Jazz whispered.
"We need to get him out of there." Danny stated. He knew those things weren't exacting comforting.
Daniel nodded. "Right. Jazz and I will look around to see if there's anything we can use to break it open. Arima, you and Dani- with an I- should stay here, see if there's a way to stop the flow of that ectoplasm through the container so he won't be contaminated. Kimi and Danny, you don't mind making sure that no one comes down, do you?"
Kimi and Danny shook their heads, saying that they didn't mind. They went off towards the entrance. Arima and Dani started looking around the machines, seeing if there was a way to empty the cylinder, not wanting more Halfas. Jazz and Daniel went off into other parts of the basements, trying to find something like a fire extinguisher or something that could break the glass yet not hurt the male teen.
Help... I can't- can't- can't... help me... The voice begged again. The Halfas/Daniel knew that it was the teen begging them to free him from his prison.
Dani thought she recognized a switch on a dashboard. She remembered it was the switch that Vlad had used to remove the liquid from the container so it wouldn't spill when he placed Danny in. "I think I found the switch!" She flipped it.
A loud sucking sound filled their ears. The male teen sank to the bottom of the container. Very, very slowly, little by little, the ectoplasm/blood drained from the container.
The other four came back into the room, noticing the noise.
"We just need to open it," Danny said. He knew that if he could use his powers, he might be able to open it, but since he didn't the Masters to know for sure his secret just yet, he couldn't.
What's going on? Wh-what's happening? The teen asked. No! Please, Vlad, please! The teen unconsciously pulled his legs closer to his chest and covered his head with his arms, as if to protect himself from harm. Please, let me be... I've let you do what you need to to me... Why won't you let me be? Please... Please... It was obvious that this teen had been under torture.
"What's going on down there?!" Vlad yelled. The echo of his footsteps became louder as he went down the stairs.
"Man!" Daniel muttered. "I'll put up the shield! That will help!" He ran off to another part of the room and quickly entered a password on a large computer, his fingers a blur. The shield came up again. "No one can enter or exit this basement until I enter the password again." He stated.
They heard pounding. "Let me in, you intruders!" Vlad ordered. He was wondering how the "intruders" knew his password: Madeline plus Vladimir Masters forever.
Daniel turned towards the Halfas. "No one makes a sound unless it's because you're breaking the container so we can get the hell out of here, all right?" Without waiting for an answer, he turned back to the computer and continued pushing in some more commands.
The liquid was now lowered to the bottom of the boy's eyes. Wide green eyes snapped open. Who the heck are you?!
"If that thing you're doing is able to be heard by anyone, then shush!" Kimi snapped. "We'll explain later, but if there's a way you know to get you out of there, show us! Vlad's getting angry!"
The teen pointed an ectoplasm covered finger at the machine where Daniel was. Type K99 (dash) B99 after opening the clone file. But you better not read any information, all right?
Daniel glanced at the teen before doing what he said.
"Opening hatch K99-B99." A monotone voice replied.
The container opened and the teen stumbled out.
"Do you know another way out of here besides that way?" Jazz asked, pointing towards the way they had came.
"Follow me," The teen, so far only known as the inhabitant of Hatch K99-B99, said and led them to a previously unknown exit from the basement.
They saw the door and the force field flickering on and off near it. The field suddenly dropped completely and the Halfas plus the unknown teen ran through it. But Daniel was only halfway through it when the force field turned on again.
"G-g-go!" Daniel yelled as he was shocked over and over again with the force field. "I'll-get-out!"
The original Halfas and the teen nodded and ran off but the sisters stayed a while before leaving.
Just less than two minutes after the others ran out of the basement, Vlad saw his son stuck in between the field, yelling in agonizing pain. "Daniel! Hold on!" He said as he ran off to turn the field back off.
The field fell, slowly, but it turned off all the same. Daniel fell to his knees, took several deep breaths, then ran out of the basement before his father could return.
-later at dinner-
"What do you mean, you're leaving?" Maddie asked her son. They all sat at the dinner table, minus K99-B99 who was in Daniel's room resting, staring at Daniel, waiting for an explanation for his sudden decision to leave the mansion with Ray.
"Just that. We'll be staying until the day after tomorrow when the flight back to Amity comes." Daniel replied.
His son Ray looked at him. "And Dadny?" Ray had made that name up for Danny, since Danny looked and sort of acted like his dad but was a completely different person all together.
Dani smirked, this being the first time she had heard the nickname for her 'cousin.' "Dadny?" She whispered to Danny.
"He sort of thinks I'm his dad since well, you know." Danny whispered back.
"Ray, Danny is staying here with grandma and grandpa. He can't come with us unless he wanted to," Daniel stated. "So, anyway, we're going back to Amity, talk with the Fentons maybe, let Ray see his mom again, see if Tuck has done anything that needs to be undone, et cetera."
Fentons? Danny and Dani thought. Does that mean that Dad/Jack is still married here?
"Who are the Fentons?" Danny wondered, though he knew who at least one of them was.
"Another family of Ghost Hunters- well, actually, the dad is the only one who does the hunting, his kids do research." Kimi stated.
"The daughter Ranielle is close friends with Dan. We've met her and her brother John but the father Jack seems to always be somewhere else." Arima continued.
The original Halfas thought. "Where's his wife then?" Dani wondered.
"Oh, Jack isn't married." Maddie replied.
"The guy just adopted his kids. Both from the streets," Vlad explained. "He's only their legal guardian, not biological father." He seemed to know something about the Fentons here in this universe...
A blast that had hit a wall interrupted Jazz from continuing. "Got to go, sorry," All of the Halfas plus Daniel said in a rush, quickly getting up from their seats and leaving the dining room.
Cricket chirping.
"Well, Ray, I guess that means we're going to have to get that ghost ourselves. Do you still have those Masters Wrist Rays Grandma gave you?"
-outside-
A few minutes later, outside, Danny was about to fire at Plasmius; Dani at the Masters Gadgets that Maddie was using; Plasmius at the sisters; Bones at Danny and Dani; Reversi at the weapons; Dark at Plasmius; Maddie at the Phantoms; and the little Ray just shooting using the Wrist Rays at any of the ghosts, protected by a ghost shield around all of him except his hands so the ecto-energy would get the ghosts.
"Stop!" A male voice yelled from a branch on a tree.
The large group stopped and turned to the direction of the voice.
"Show yourself, ghost!" Maddie yelled.
"I'd rather not right now, seeing I just returned from this completely long vacation." The male half joked. "But stop, all of this ecto-energy could blow up everything, leaving everyone dead."
The glow around the ghosts' hands stopped and the weapons that Maddie and Ray wore were turned off.
"Now, please, let's try not to use so much ecto-energy, since I don't want to have to end up knocking everyone out." The stare from the invisible ghost disappeared.
Suddenly there was a blast from the window that belonged to Daniel's room. It hit the Masters Weapons and removed them from the hands of the two pure humans. The Halfas took this as a chance to disappear and hide while the humans had to grab the parts of the weapons.
-the day when the plane comes-
"Bye Grandma! Bye Grandpa! Bye Jazzy, Ari, Kimmie! Bye Dadny and Dani!" Ray exclaimed as he hugged each one.
Daniel and Ray were getting ready to leave. It was noon, the Masters and the original Phantoms still inside the mansion, a cab waiting outside for Daniel and Ray.
"See you guys!" Daniel said as he placed Ray in the cab and entered himself. As soon as they were far enough from the Mansion, he told the driver, "Take us to any hotel nearby."
Back at the Mansion, Jazz was also bidding good-bye. She was leaving for a summer class for whatever she wanted to be- or maybe it was a camp for those who believed in black magic, I forgot. Right before she entered the cab, she whispered in Arima's ear, "If that Phantom and his little look alike are good, I'll stop using my powers for a month. So make sure he's not so I don't have to, OK?"
The red head nodded as Jazz left. No powers for a month? Is she really serious? Arima wondered if that promise would be kept if Phantom was good.