Retrieval Saga:
A Chance of a Ghost
Chapter 3: Meeting the Fentons
Eventually, the group was a block away from Danny's house. "So let me see if I have all this," said Chip, "you originally got your powers when you activated your parents' Ghost Portal while inside and got imbued with ectoplasm. And until recently, when you saved the planet from being destroyed by an asteroid, you've had a secret ghost-fighting superhero alter-ego?" "That's right," said Danny, "it wasn't easy to keep it a secret, but it's a lot easier since it doesn't have to be a secret. Of course, there is the occasional trouble with the paparazzi. It must be harder for you, being genetic experiments from another planet." "Eh, we get by," said Draco, "helps to have advanced technology at your disposal."
Finally, they reached Danny's house. It was easily to tell apart from the others on account of the large observatory on top and the sign saying, "Fenton Works," on the side. "That reminds me," said Danny pausing, "You guys should know that when it comes to ghost-hunting, my parents are a bit…" "Obsessed?" finished Contrinus. "No, they're nuts," said Danny, "in fact, the main reason I didn't tell them I was half-ghost was because they want to either blast a ghost to pieces or dissect it. So you might not get a really warm welcome at first." "Hey, we're alien life-forms," said Draco, "how could they possibly react?"
Danny opened the front door tentatively and said, "Guys, I'm home!" "Hey Danny," said his father, Jack Fenton, "Did you catch that ghost in the park?" "Sure did," said Danny, "it was Vortex. But the odd thing was that he said that he didn't make that thundercloud." "And you believed him?" asked his mother, Maddie Fenton. "Vortex isn't the lying type," said Danny, "by the way, some guys helped me beat Vortex and they need a place to stay." "Well," said Jack, "if they're willing to help you fight ghosts, I'm sure they can't be bad. What are they like?" "Well, I think you should do the judging," said Danny, opening the door for the experiments. "Oh how cute," said Maddie, "They're dressed as trick-or-treaters." "Actually," said Contrinus, "we're aliens." "Aliens? Oh boy! I can finally get a chance to use the Fenton Gut-Dicer to see what they're made of!" Jack pulled a gadget that looked like a large dentist's drill with several sharp-looking blades attached to it from out of his pocket and pointed at the experiments. "Wait!" cried Chip, "we're genetic experiments! We know what we're made of!" "Oh," said Jack. He looked at the Fenton Gut-Dicer and muttered, "I'm never gonna the chance to use this thing."
At that moment, three teenagers, two girls and a boy, came down the stairs. "Did I hear right?" asked Danny's sister, Jazz, "we have aliens?" She quickly ran into the living room and looked around. "Down here," said Chip and she looked down to see the four aliens. "Huh, I expected to be taller," said Jazz. "Yeah, we get that a lot," said Draco. "Wow, cool," said Danny's friend, Tucker, a boy with glasses and an orange hat, "do you guys have big spaceships that can go into hyperspace and blast out lasers?" "Not on us, but yeah." "Actually," said Contrinus, "that's the reason we asked to stay here. The escape pod we came in is in no shape to fly. So we were wondering if you could let us stay here until we can contact our friends and get a ride back home." "I don't know," said the other girl, Sam, "Ghost-hunting's hard enough, but this…" "Did we mention we're good mechanics, technicians, and cooks?" said Chip. "The guest rooms are up the stairs, third door on the left," said Jack quickly.
"Now wait a minute," said Maddie, "stranded or not, I am not having four space experiments sleeping under this roof at one time. They could cause a really big mess." The experiments started to look forlorn when Maddie said, "I think it would be better if some of them lived at Sam's and Tucker's, at least during the night." "Wait a minute," said Sam, "my parents don't like ghosts, there's no way they're going to let me keep a-" "Dibs on the robot!" yelled Tucker and he grabbed Chip's arm. "For the record, I'm a cyborg and the name's Chip," said Chip as Tucker dragged him upstairs. Draco hugged Contrinus closed to him, indicating that the two of them were a package pair. Danny and Sam looked from Draco and Contrinus to PlasMorph. "Danny," said Sam, "we've known each other for a long time, right?" "Yeah, I guess so," said Danny. "So you know how much I like occult stuff. Thanks!" She grabbed Draco and Contrinus and ran upstairs. "Hey! Wait a minute!" yelled Danny. Then he looked at Morph again, who was apparently seeing how far he can stretch his tongue, and said, "Aw, man!"
Sam decided to take Draco and Contrinus to Jazz's room for a little bit. She closed the door behind her and then asked, "So, are you two a couple or something?" "Indeed we are," said Contrinus and gave Draco a kiss on the cheek. "I helped saved her from a group of magic-hunters who thought she was a phoenix and it's hit off ever since," said Draco. "Wow," said Sam, "sounds like you two were made for each other." "In a sense," said Contrinus, "what about you and Danny?" "How'd you picked that up?" asked Sam. "It's a girl thing," said Contrinus, "that and the ring on your finger." Sam held up her hand, letting the light glint off the class ring on her finger. "Well, I had a bit of crush for a while, but we didn't really go anywhere until Danny saved the world. He skipped his own statue-revealing ceremony to spend time with me." "That is so sweet," said Contrinus, "we should do something like that sometime, Draco." "For you, I'd save any world," said Draco.
Meanwhile, Danny, Jack, Maddie, and Jazz were down in the lab with Morph. "Jack, I don't think you should be using that equipment near Morph," said Maddie. "Ah relax," said Jack, holding his Ghost Gun, "he said he was made of plasma, and this thing only hurts things made of ectoplasm. Unless, you switch it to 'Blast-all' like this." He twisted a dial and a green beam shot out and vaporized Morph's head. The Fentons gasped in shock, but Morph regenerated his head and said, "That felt weird." "Well, what do you know," said Jack, "the little guy can regenerate." He looked thoughtfully at his untested weapons before a look from Maddie convinced him of otherwise.
"Doesn't it seem a bit unfair that the others get the cooler aliens than me?" asked Danny. "Oh, I'm sure Morph is just as special as, Morph, no, don't open that!" Jazz's voice changed tones as Morph picked up an iron box and lifted the lid on it. Suddenly a ghostly hand came out of the box, grabbed Morph, and pulled him inside, snapping the lid shut. A second later, they heard Morph's voice say, "Take my soul, will you? Well, take this!" Suddenly there were noises of fighting and banging coming from in the box. Then the lid opened and Morph hopped out. He dusted his hands off and said, "What a lightweight." "See Danny?" said Jack, "Morph's just as cool as those other- Hold it right there!" Morph paused right as he was about to take a bite out of a large ham. "What do you think you're doing with my ham?" asked Jack sternly. "Having a snack," said Morph, "Listen here, blobbo," said Jack, "nobody, but nobody eats my snacks but me." Morph just said an insolent thing in Tantalog and blew a raspberry. The first part was meaningless to Jack, but he understood the last part quite well. "Why you little," Jack pounced on Morph and the two of them quickly started kicking up a cloud of dust.
Meanwhile, Tucker and Chip were in Danny's room, working with Tucker's PDA. "I'm able to hack into anything with this thing," said Tucker, "helped me stopped ghosts many a time." "Interesting," said Chip, "400 gigabits per second, six-mile service area, grade-A silicon, this is top-notch tech. The only palm-held gadget greater than this by Earth standards would be an iPhone." "Well," said Tucker, "my parents said if I'm a good mayor this year, I'll get for my birthday." Chip raised his eyebrow and said, "You're the mayor?" "Youngest ever," said Tucker, "got the job after my system helped save the world. Not to mention there was an open seat since Vlad exiled himself." "Think you can handle that much power and responsibility?" "Hmm, the power might be a bit tricky, but once I get the hang of it," Tucker was interrupted by Draco opening the door. "Come here quick or you'll miss it!" he said, "Morph and Mr. Fenton are fighting over a ham!" Tucker and Chip gave each other one look before running out the door.
Meanwhile, two boys were looking around the park. "I don't know, Dash," said one boy, "hanging around a place where ghosts were fighting is one thing, but that cloud looks like it's getting worse." "Ah, come on Kwan," said Dash, "if we can find out what's making that cloud, Danny will owe us big time. He might get us a couple of dates." "Yeah, Fenton sure has gotten a lot of admirers lately, like us." "Be quiet, Kwan," said Dash. As the two walked around, they eventually found the remainders of the escape pod. "Whoa," said Dash, "it looks like it's from another world." "Yeah," said Kwan, "like in the comic books. This is what the octopus people use to land on planets they're invading."
Suddenly there was a thunderclap and rain started to fall. "That's weird," said Kwan, "the weatherman didn't say anything about rain today." Suddenly there was a growling sound behind them. They turned and saw two green creatures with tentacles floating in midair. "Ah! Octopus people!" yelled Kwan. "They're not octopuses," said Dash, "they're ectopuses," "Oh. Ah! Ectopuses!" The ectopuses growled and floated near them. Dash nearly ran, but then he yelled, "Back off, ghost-punks!" The ectopuses paused and then flew away. "Ha! Shows what happens when you mess with Dash Baxter!" "I don't think you scared them off," said Kwan, looking upwards. "Are you kidding?" said Dash, "they ran off with there tentacles between their, uh, tentacles." "No. I mean you didn't scare them off."
Dash looked up and saw that the center of the cloud was glowing purple. Seconds later, a large ball of purple light came out of the ground and fell towards where they were standing. The two of them ran out of the way before the meteorite crashed into the ground. After the dust cleared, there was a bright purple light coming from the crater. Dash and Kwan crept close to the crater to see what was inside. Suddenly a large shape loomed out of the crater. The two boys cried in fright and ran off. The shape gave a loud roar as purple lightning flashed across the sky.
There's another chapter. Things should be getting faster now that we've introduced the main characters. Not to mention, an air of mystery at the end involving a purple meteorite and purple lightning leading up to- well, you'll see soon enough. There will be a lot of stuff in the next chapter so it might take a bit of a while for it to get typed out. Stick around for it and please review.