Retrieval Saga:
A Chance of a Ghost
Chapter 2: It's Raining Cats and Dogs, and Aliens
The park was in turmoil. The citizens have long since abandoned it, for good reason. A large ghost was tearing up the place, particularly his torrents of wind and rain. The ghost's tornado-like tail swept up the duck pond and sprayed it everywhere. "Ah," said the ghost in a deep but wheezy voice, "the sound of the storm is music to my ears, as well as the common humans screaming for their pitiful lives."
Suddenly the ghost sensed something coming and turned around. Running towards him was Danny. "Vortex," said Danny, "I should have known." "Danny Phantom," growled Vortex, "I would have suspected that you would come to rain on my parade." "I think I should make the weather puns," said Danny, "I'm better at it." Then Danny's body was surrounded by two rings of light. As they moved apart, his clothes were changed to a black and white jumpsuit with a symbol on the shirt. His hair became white while his eyes turned green. His entire body was covered in a ghostly glow.
Danny floated into the air and shot several blasts of ectoplasm at Vortex. Vortex was buffeted back by the blasts but was far from harmed. He sent a torrent of water at Danny who just managed to miss it. "I hope you don't mind if I give you the cold shoulder," said Vortex and he threw several large hailstones at Danny. Danny got hit in the shoulder and he said, "Yeah, I still think I'm better at pun-making."
Then Vortex started throwing lightning bolts at Danny. As Danny weaved through the lightning, he said, "You're going back to the Ghost Zone, Vortex. You and that overgrown thunderhead you whipped up." "You think this masterpiece belongs to me?" asked Vortex, "As flattering as the compliment is, this is not of my creation." "But it can't be natural," said Danny. "No, but I recognize great work when I see, so I came here to watch its majesty. Of course, I'd be able to enjoy it more if you pesky humans would stay out of the way. But I brought something with me to help settle that problem." Suddenly several generic ghosts rose out of the ground and Vortex said, "You think you can handle this, Phantom?"
Suddenly the thundercloud above started crackling and booming even more. Suddenly a large loop of energy appeared in the middle of it. "What in the world?" asked Danny. Suddenly what looked like a metal pod appeared in the middle of it and started falling towards the ground. Danny and Vortex got out of the way, but the lesser ghosts weren't so lucky. The pod crashed into them so hard that the ghosts were splattered into piles of ectoplasm. The impact also ejected and scattered the pod's passengers. One that looked like a small dragon slammed into the ground and slid forward, creating a small trench as he went. Another that looked like a robot fell into a trash bin. A third one that looked like a bird was sent into a tree. And the last one that was like a large white slug landed in a pile of ectoplasm.
The dragon slowly got up and rubbed his head. "Ooh," he said, "I feel like I've grown a third horn." The robot crawled out of the trash bin, looked back out what he landed in and said, "Oh, that's just insulting." The two of them looked up at Vortex and gave a small yelp of surprise. "I'm not sure what that is, but I don't think it's in a good mood," said the dragon Vortex gave a howl that threw the two of them backwards. "Do you just attract these things, Draco, or do you want them to come?" asked the robot. "Shut up, Chip," said Draco.
"Such strange creatures," said Vortex, "I wonder if lightning fries them as easily as humans?" Before he could generate enough electricity, an icy blast hit him in the back. Vortex growled and turned to see Danny with his hands covered with an icy glow. "I don't think that's the proper way of welcoming people," said Danny, "but neither is this." Danny fired another ice beam of Vortex, whose chest was covered in ice. "You think your ice powers stand a chance against mine?" scoffed Vortex and he broke the ice with a simple flex. Then Vortex sent a flurry of snow at Danny. The flurry caught Danny off-guard and he was thrown to the ground.
Vortex floated over Danny and raised his hand to deliver the final blow. Suddenly he got hit in the back by two blasts of electricity. He turned around to see Draco and Chip in fighting position; Draco's lightning mouth open and Chip's hands covered in viral energy. "We might not familiar with this place," said Draco. "But it takes no genius to figure who's the hero and who's the villain." The two of them blasted Vortex again and he was thrown into a wall. Then they went over to Danny who was just getting up. "You okay?" asked Draco. "Fine, thanks," said Danny, "you guys aren't from around here are you." "Indeed we are not," said Chip, "but I think we should explain ourselves after this, uh," "Ghost." "Ghost is defeated. Wait, that's a ghost?" Suddenly a bolt of lightning threw the three of them apart. "Talk later," called Danny.
Vortex was now throwing blasts of ice, wind, water, and lightning everywhere. "Does this guy have any weaknesses?" asked Draco, as he narrowly avoided a squall of hail. "He doesn't care for sunny weather," said Danny, "but I don't think we can get any sunshine at 10:00 PM." "Maybe I can help with that," said a voice. Danny looked up to see the bird sitting at the top of the tree. She flapped her wings and opened her beak. A large beam of bright light came out and hit Vortex in the chest. Vortex howled in pain and grew smaller in size. "Way to go, Contrinus!" called Chip. Contrinus kept hitting Vortex with light beams until he wasn't too much taller than Danny. "And that's my cue," said Danny. He whipped out the Fenton Thermos and aimed it at Vortex. Vortex was helpless against the weapon's gravitational pull and was sucked into the thermos.
Then Contrinus flew out of the tree and landed besides Draco. Danny looked at the three strange creatures and said, "I guess there's a bit of explaining to around here. Maybe it'd be better if we did at my place." "That sounds fine with us," said Chip, "where's Morph?" "Don't worry," called the white slug, "I landed in this pile of green jell-o." "Actually, that's ectoplasm," said Danny. "So he's sitting in a pile of ghosts' guts?" asked Draco. "Basically," said Danny. "Okay," said Morph, "I believe the proper response to that is: IKY! IKY! IKY!" Morph leaped out of the goo and started wiping it off of himself.
"Good thing I brought the Fenton X-tractor," said Danny, pulling out what looked like a collapsible vacuum cleaner. "Is that a vacuum cleaner?" asked Chip. "Not quite," said Danny, "it only sucks up ectoplasm. And it can't hurt people, unless it gets in your hair." "What about the rest of your head?" asked Draco. Danny looked and saw that Morph had somehow gotten his head sucked in. Danny used the reverse switch to get him out and then sucked the rest of the ectoplasm. Then Danny returned to his human form and said, "We can talk on the way to my house." The four aliens followed him, none of them aware of the thundercloud's gradual growth in intensity.
There's another chapter. It's not that long, but it's got a good fight in it. I originally wanted Danny fighting ghosts relating to the experiments, such as Technus or Prince Aragon. But I thought Vortex might be good for start. Things will get a lot faster in the next chapter and pretty funny too. Trust me, you're going to want to read it. I'll be working on it, so be alert for it. Please review.