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Code: Going Ghost
Part two of third Story Arc
Plant Food
Remains of Amity Chemical
Danny and Odd landed on some giant pipes with Sam on Danny's back. The place was crawling with giant ghost vines as the ruins started to look more rebuilt. Danny's intercom beeped and Danny turned it on.
"Danny, Aelita said that was some strange seismic activity around the chemical factory. What's going on?" said Dani's voice,
"It's the ghost plants, Dani. Undergrowth's vines are rebuilding Amity Chemical underground." said Sam.
"Any news on Ember?" asked Danny,
"Nothing yet. I'll let you know as soon as I find anything but it looks like a lot of money is being spent on this. Freakshow must have his claws deep." said Dani.
"What about that plant Yumi found in the apple?" asked Odd,
"It's dying literally. It doesn't want to eat anything except the hand that is feeding it and it's starving to death." said Dani.
The intercom went off and they jumped off the pipes to look around. Various machines were surrounded by plants.
"Well we should find Vlad before that plant in his stomach gets hungry." said Danny,
"That sounded bitter sweet." said Odd.
They started walking through the underground complex and encountered many troubles along the way. The creatures they ran into were ghost like humanoid plants that shifted their arms into lances and shot ghost plant bombs at them from the distance. They also jumped across pits with large plant monsters.
Large tanks leaking various chemical across the floor. Danny grabbed Sam as Odd climbed up the wall with his claws and entered the office of the room. They looked and saw a window in the next hallway with two cloaked figures walking through and it vanished into the shadows. Danny turned on his intercom.
"Hey, Jazz, we found yours and Aelita's friends from the train." said Danny,
"Those ghosts with the scorpion tail and paint brush? They could lead you straight to Freakshow." said Jazz.
They opened the door and went down the hallway the cloaked figures went through. They noticed a ramp going down and followed it. They avoided large holes that seemed to lead down to nothing but darkness. They noticed a large glass showing a room with boxes on a ramp over a pit of acid.
Suddenly two green ghost tentacles smashed through the glass and grabbed Danny.
"Danny!" said Sam.
Danny quickly blasted the plants with an ecto blast. Odd looked around the hole in the wall that served as the exit and found a large pipe that seamed to lead out.
"This way!" said Odd.
They went through the pipe and found a large room with tanks containing acid. Several plant guards guarded the area with green ghost plant tentacles sticking out of the tanks. The guards lunged at them. Danny flew into the air and fired ecto blasts at them which they dodged.
They jumped onto him and he crashed into the floor. He blasted them off and jumped up onto his feet. One jumped and shifted its arm into a lance. Danny ducked as the lance came forward.
Danny fired a blast which the ghost dodged and launched a plant bomb. Danny went intangible and avoided the blast. Odd jumped and landed on the ghost before it could go intangible and sucked it into the Fenton Thermos.
"Thanks, Odd." said Danny.
Odd smiled and they climbed up to the next door which led to a room looking like the last one. Except this time they could see Vlad walking towards the exit.
"Vlad!" said Danny.
The man turned and smiled.
"Daniel, I knew you would come here sooner or later and you bring along one of your new friends. I thought they would have left after they finally destroyed their enemy." said Vlad, referring to what happened that night on Amity Bridge.
"Tell us about Freakshow and Undergrowth." said Danny,
"Very well. They created these things which they hid in fruits and various foods that we eat so they could put them in our stomachs and it gets very bad for us when they get hungry. Unless we do what they say then we don't get the antidote and then we become the meal when the plants get hungry." said Vid.
"So they're blackmailing you? How many have eaten those plants?" asked Sam,
"Not too many but the victims are some of Amity Park's most important figures with the highest influence." said Vlad.
He noticed something and turned.
"I have said too much." said Vlad.
He ran towards the door and escaped as the two cloaked figures from the train appeared behind Danny and the others. The one with large lump removed his cloak and Danny gasped. The ghost had black hair with a lower jaw made of wood which was separated into three segments. Strips crafted onto nearly his entire body.
His abdomen, back, spine, shoulders, arms, and his legs. Several masks were on his back close to the spinal cord.
"I am the Puppet Ghost. They call me Marionette." said the ghost.
It was the name that sent Danny, Odd, and Sam into a laughing frenzy.
"What's so funny?" asked Marionette,
"Nothing, Mary." said Danny, laughing harder.
Marionette growled at them while the other removed his cloak. He looked like an Irish old man with a beard, a striped shirt with long pants and his hair was curved up into a brush.
"You can call me, Pallet, the Paint Ghost." said the ghost,
"Paint Ghost and Puppet Ghost? Never heard of you, Polly." said Odd.
"Enough! You mocked me! The greatest Puppet Master in the history of the Ghost Zone. Now you will face the consequences." said Marionette,
"Sure thing, Marion." said Danny, chuckling.
Marionette raised his hands and small daggers erupted from them which turned his hands into claws. The Puppet Ghost bent down and lunged at Danny. He was fast! Danny leapt back to avoid Marionette's kick which a dagger sprouted from and sliced Danny's cheek.
"Danny!" said Sam,
"I'm fine! Get Vlad now!" said Danny.
Odd nodded and grabbed Sam and dragged her out.
"From your lack of skills I am surprised you have the guts to face us down." said Marionette,
"I just needed them out so I won't have to worry about them." said Danny.
Pallet smiled and took out a staff with a paint brush on top of it.
"We are the greatest ghost artists in the Ghost Zone. You have no chance against us." said Pallet,
"So why did you team up with Freakshow?" asked Danny.
"I joined up with him for pure business. You see I am the greatest puppet master but I work to create the greatest puppets that have ever been made. When I heard about you ghost boy I was interested. My collection will go well with a half ghost in it." said Marionette,
"And what's your story?" asked Danny, pointing at Pallet.
The Paint Ghost shrugged.
"It presented new opportunities." said Pallet.
Danny fired an ecto blast at Pallet but the Paint Ghost only held out his staff and the paint flew out of it and shaped itself into a bomb which exploded when it made contact with the ecto bolt. Marionette aimed his arm at Danny and a panel opened up. Spring loaded needles launched right out of the panel and flew at the half ghosts. Danny quickly created an ecto shield that blocked it but could move as Pallet used his paint brush to create a missile with a face on it and launched it at him.
Danny covered himself as the missile hit him and exploded. He was sent flying across the room and landed on the ramp over the tanks full of acid.
Danny looked up to see Pallet create a giant plant that lunged at him. He flew into the air and blasted the plant.
He flew at Marionette and tried to punch the Puppet Ghost but panels opened up and revealed metal tentacles that grabbed the ghost boy and rammed him into the wall. Danny quickly went intangible and slipped out of the tentacles.
"Pathetic. Pallet you can sit this one out. This ghost child is mine." said Marionette,
"Fine." said Pallet.
Marionette's shoulders opened up and revealed missile from Skulker's suit and fired them. Danny gulped as the missiles flew towards him. He fired ecto blast but the missiles exploded into tiny needles. The needles pined Danny to the wall but the half ghost vaporized them with an ecto blast.
"How long do you realize that self defense is not going to save you? Without a simple battle strategy but then again it did save you from such bumbling idiots like Skulker and Technus. After all it was so easy to steal parts from them for my puppets. Most people think puppets are just useless flammable tools but I have discovered a way to make them the ultimate weapon which is way my body is like this now." said Marionette,
"You changed your body into a puppet?" asked Danny.
"Just as Skulker created his exo-skeleton and as Technus created his mechanical bodies to fight in. Imagine the looks on their faces when I easily defeated them and stole their most important parts." said Marionette,
"You used other ghost parts to make your puppets?" asked Danny.
"Just as I plan to do with you." said Marionette,
"Make a puppet out me? That's even worse than Skulker after my pelt!" said Danny.
"Don't compare me to that useless hunter." said Marionette.
One of masks on his back opened and a large pointy tail appeared. His tail dug itself into the ground and shot him forward like a metal spring. Danny gasped as the Puppet Ghost slammed his knee into his chest. Danny quickly jumped as the tail came forward and launched ecto blasts. He avoided the ecto bolts the tail launched and fired back.
Metallic wheels sprouted from Marionette's feet and began to whirl. Marionette moved with great speed that Danny only had second to move before Marionette slammed his fist into his face.
"Now to finish this." said Marionette.
A wooden panel in his spine opened up and revealed a sword.
"The operation of turning you into a ghost puppet is extremely painful. First thing we have to do make your skin into wood but then all we have to do is stick some ecto strings. If you were a full ghost then this it wouldn't be necessary at all but I need to keep your human side under control." said Marionette.
Suddenly a laser hit the Puppet Ghost in the back and he yelled. He looked back with a full glare and saw Sam using the Fenton Ghost Peeler.
"Get your strings off him!" said Sam,
"Sam!" said Danny.
"You thought we were going to leave you." said Odd.
He pulled out a laser gun and fired at Marionette which the Puppet Ghost dodged. He glared at them but the distraction was enough for Danny to destroy his tail. He yelled in pain and glared at him.
"Very well now you will face the entire ghost army I have recently collected." said Marionette.
He raised his hands and green glowing strings were seen. Suddenly Skulker, Technus, Desiree, Johnny Thirteen, Klemper, Spectra, along with Vlad's ghost animals appeared.
"Someone has been busy." said Danny,
"Thanks to my ecto strings which are attached to these ghosts they are completely under my control with no ability to think for themselves at all. It was so easy to get them when they came to me. Now my ghostly puppets bring me our new addition!" said Marionette.