Maddie ran up to the small heap on the floor that was her son.
"Danny!" Maddie kneeled down and flipped him on his back. He was extremely pale and his chest was just barely moving. She could hardly feel a pulse, but there was one, a weak one.
"Danny? Danny are you okay?" Maddie squeezed her son in a tight hug. He simply hung limp in her arms.
"Maddie? If that's Danny, than what's in the Spectra Signa?" Jack asked.
Maddie and Jack ran to the back of the Signa. There, in the container, was Danny Phantom, or a Danny Phantom squished up in a clear container. His face was also much paler than usual (If that's possible) and he looked to also be unconscious. Both Danny's were in the same state of being, unconscious and barely breathing.
"It's the ghost boy! Maddie we caught the ghost boy!" Jack grasped his wives shoulder's and shook her in joy.
"Jack!" Maddie ripped herself from her husbands grasp, "That's our son! That's Danny!"
"But how could this be Danny if Danny's over… my head hurts," Jack held his head.
"Jack! Our son is the ghost boy!" Maddie tapped her chin, "That lad accident a few months ago, Danny must have gotten stuck in the portal when he turned it on! He said he was outside and we forgot to push a button, but I'm sure we checked everything. What if Danny turned it on when he was inside! He would have gotten zapped by a huge amount of ectoplasm! It must have half killed him! Jack, we half killed our own son!"
"Maddie, I can't see how that's possible. He would have been killed if he got zapped with that much ectoplasm,"
"Danny's always been a strong boy, I'm sure that's what happened and he somehow survived it, half way at least, and became half ghost," then, something clicked in Maddie's brain, " Jack, we just split our son in half!"
"Well, can't we just put them back together?" Jack suggested.
"That's always a possibility," Maddie ran up to the control panel and pushed a button marked, "Release container". It clicked and fell to the floor in front of Jack.
"Jack, bring Phantom over to Fenton," Maddie ran over to Fenton, "Whoa, that sounded weird."
She knelt down next to him. She realized that his breathing had slowed since she was last with him.
"Jack, Hurry!" Jack ran up with Phantom. He handed him to Maddie. Maddie undid the lid above Fenton and Phantom fell out. On impact Fenton was pushed a few inches away as Phantom landed on him. Phantom fell to the floor where Fenton just was.
"What!" Maddie shouted. She stood up and grabbed her husband, "Jack! It didn't work! Danny's only half alive! He can't live that way! Jack, Danny's gonna die and its all our fault!" Maddie started to sob.
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Sam and tucker watched Danny's fight with the Box Ghost from the shadows. They saw Danny get pelted and they saw the little round thing his mom threw stick to his back.
They watched in horror as Danny was shocked and as he fell to the ground.
"Tucker! Danny needs our help!" Sam whispered loudly.
"What can we do? We'll blow his cover," Tucker just stared as the Fenton's picked up Danny and carried him into the house. They could see Jazz in the garage getting in her car. She was completely oblivious to what had just happened.
"Jazz," Sam muttered as she ran up to the car emerging fro the garage. She waved her arms to get Jazz's attention. She was just pulling out unto the street when she noticed Sam.
"Sam?" Jazz rolled down her window, "What's wrong? Where's Danny?"
"He was fighting the Box Ghost, and then your parents zapped him and he blacked out and now he's in there," Sam summed it up, pointing to the house.
"What! Mom and Dad have him? How did they get Danny? Omigosh, what if they try that new machine on him?" Jazz panicked.
"Jazz, we don't have time! There's no telling what they're going to do to him! C'mon!" Sam ran towards Fenton Works. She tried to open the door, but it was locked. She screamed in anger and started to pull on the knob and pound on the door.
Jazz searched for her key, but was getting nowhere. She searched through her purse only to find a small hole where they should be, "DARN IT!"
"You lost the key!" Sam and tucker yelled at her. They were getting worried.
Jazz fell to her knees and started to cry. She held her head in her hands, "Oh, this is all my fault. If I had stayed in the house for five minutes longer, I could have helped him." She started to cry even louder.
"Jazz, It's not you fault," Sam knelt down next to Jazz, "Your parents are ghost hunters and Danny's…well, a ghost. We knew this would happen eventually. And we don't know if they're actually hurting him."
Suddenly, they could here a blood curling scream come from inside the house.
"And… now we do," Tucker said.
Jazz and Sam shot up and began to pound on the door. Tears began to run from their eyes and their knuckles became sore and bruised.
"MOM DAD! PLEASE OPEN UP! PLEASE," Jazz begged. She stopped banging for a second, "Sam I have an idea." Sam moved out of the way and Jazz moved a few inches from the door. She stared at it for a few seconds.
"Uh, what is she doing?" Tucker asked.
Jazz ran and kicked the door as hard as she could. It wavered but didn't fall. She backed up once more, "This door has always been a little unstable, because once, "she kicked again, "my Dad accidentally pulled it off. It's never been the same since then." She kicked it once more the top hinge cracked as the door hung limp.
"Come on! Help me out!" Sam and Tucker began to kick the door too, each time the door swaying in; the screams coming to them a little louder.
The second hinge cracked just as the screaming ceased. This only caused them to kick the door with more force.
"What if they killed him? His parents are perfectly capable of doing that. Oh, I'll never forgive them if they did!" Sam and Jazz panicked, horrible thoughts surfing through their minds.
The door finally crashed to the floor after what seemed like an eternity. The three bolted down to the basement. They halted to a stop on the stairs when the saw the scene before them. Jack and Maddie were pacing and panicking. Both Danny's lain motionless on the floor, and from where, they seemed to not be breathing.
"Mom, Dad? What happened?" Jazz asked, she barely noticed Sam shoot down the stairs and pick up Danny in her arms. He was just barely breathing and his pulse was super weak. She noticed Phantom also on the floor, one arm draped over his chest, he seemed to be paling and he looked completely drained of all energy. It looked like he had aged ten years and was holding on by just a thread.
"Jazz, Sam, Tucker? Why aren't you at school?" Maddie asked.
"Uh, we… forgot, something and we heard the screaming so we decided to check it out," Well, it was partially true, I guess, I mean they could say they forgot Danny.
"Oh, I'm a horrible mother!" Maddie buried her head in her hands and began to sob.
"You're not a horrible mother, Mom. You're a great mom," Jazz came down to reassure her mom.
"Jazz, honey, look what I've done to Danny! He's practically dead! And I killed him!" she began to cry louder. Jazz looked over at her brother…s, brothers. Sam was frantically trying to get Danny breathing and functioning properly again, while Tucker did, whatever one can do to a ghost, to Phantom.
Jazz hugged her mom, "He'll be okay. He's been through worse," Jazz faked a smile but in her heart she was silently saying, "I hope he'll be okay."
Sam yelled in anger at her futile attempt to help Danny, "I'm going to bring him upstairs. Tucker, you carry Phantom."
She picked up the exceptionally light Danny. He felt as though he was half his weight. Tucker carried Phantom who was a little too light, as he kept dropping him because he felt just like air.
Sam laid Danny on the couch; Tucker put Phantom on an armchair. Sam kneeled down on the floor so her head was level with Danny's. She started to cry as Danny was still barely breathing and she couldn't get him to start to breath properly again. Jazz ran up to her brother. She was going to have to do CPR.
Maddie and Jack stood in the kitchen door way staring at their children and their friends frantically try to help their son.
"Apparently they've known about Danny being half ghost. Why didn't he tell us? Doesn't he trust us?" all these thoughts went through Maddie's mind as she stared at her son, tears brimming in her violet eyes.
"Sam! You pump on his chest! I'll get him breathing correctly!" Jazz began the CPR procedure.
Jazz went first, then, Sam pumped on his chest. She felt his pulse to see if it had gotten any stronger, but it stayed the same.
"Again!" Jazz and Sam repeated this procedure several times, until Jazz was gasping for air herself and Sam's wrists hurt. His condition stayed the same.
Jazz screamed in anger, "WHAT DID YOU DO TO HIM!" she glared at her parents.
They glanced at their feet.
"Jazz, Danny's only half alive. The other half is right here," Tucker pointed to Phantom, slowly fading on the chair.
Sam had been deep in thought this entire time, "I think I may know the problem and sadly the consequences," she said.
Everyone gave her their full attention.
"You said that new machine you guys made rips out a ghost's ectoplasm, right?" Jack and Maddie nodded shamefully, "Well, I think when you used it on Danny, since he was only half ghost; it ripped out his ghost half."
"Then why can't we just put them back together," Maddie asked.
"Well, I think the way they were separated may have had an impact on them. Being ripped in half isn't the best thing for ya," she didn't want to say those words, knowing in her heart that her best friend couldn't survive if they didn't find a way to put the two back into one.
"What are the consequences?" Jazz asked a little fearful of what she was about to hear.
Sam took a deep breath, "Well, Danny will only do half as much," she got a bunch of confused stares, "He'll only have half his attitude, not like last time when he separated himself, this is far worse. I guess the only good thing is both Danny's will act normal. Um, he'll only have half the appetite, he'll sleep half the day and he'll be awake half a day. He'll have half the energy and half the strength. He'll only breathe half of how he's supposed to, which isn't good. His heart will beat half as much as it's supposed to and this will result in both Danny's dying." She glanced downward, "But what will kill him faster is simply being separated from his ghost half." She closed her eyes as tears began to form.
"Why can't we just use the Fenton Ghost catcher like last time?" Tucker asked.
"Um, about that," Jack rubbed the back of his neck, "We kind of needed to use some of the parts from that to make the Spectra Signa. It didn't seem very useful, so we thought it was okay," he grinned sheepishly.
"YOU WHAT!" Jazz was flipping out. She began to rant, but Sam cut her off.
"Jazz, it's okay, it wouldn't work anyway," Sam put a hand on Jazz's shoulder, yet didn't smile. Her mind was set on Danny, "Do you think he'll wake up?"
"I hope so," Jazz, Sam and Tuck went to sit and comfort their dying friend.
"Jack, what are we going to do? Are son is dying! It's our fault! We can't just sit here!" Maddie grabbed a handful of Jack's jumpsuit in both her hands.
"We're going to figure out a way to put out son back together," Jack said, a hint of sadness covering his triumphal statement.
Jack and Maddie ran to the lab to begin their research.
"I think they took this rather well," Tucker commented
Jazz and Sam glared at him.
"What were they going to do, kick they're son out? He's already dying!" Sam yelled, causing Tucker to shrink back. Suddenly, tears began to pour out of her violet eyes. She buried her head in Danny's chest and sobbed.
She heard Jazz and Tucker gasp and then a hand swept over her hair.