Dreamscape Alternate: My Life Going Ghost
Chapter 10: Twist in the Wish
"You see, I wished myself here after Desiree showed up. My fangirl side pretty much kicked in and pretty much ended up with Vlad discovering me and having Skulker sent after me in Wisconsin, which I think Evelyn witnessed." I explained, while sitting down on an armchair. I had gotten the gigantic couch 'cleaned' off so Danny, Sam, Tucker, and Evelyn had a place to sit down without crushing one of the video games I had wished up.
"So, why didn't you tell us about this before? I mean, concerning Vlad, he really knows what he wants…" Danny began asking.
"Well…if I was from Amity Park or this universe, I wouldn't believe that you, the Fruit Loop, or Evelyn were half-ghost unless you transformed in front of me." I explained. "It almost happened in that Ghost Spider attack considering I had to blurt the fact out before I had my soul drained."
"Point," Evelyn couldn't help but nod.
"Anything else you'd like to add?" Sam sounded a bit sarcastic. I didn't blame her, and there was something nagging the back of my mind. What was it…oh yeah!
"Actually, the event with Tucker vomiting in your lunchbox and telling you it was Ricky Marsh happened in the 2nd Grade. And…Desiree apparently doesn't have enough power to wish me out of here. We tried several times after the field trip but I ended up teleporting to different rooms of this house." I shrugged.
"You mean you can't go back?" Sarcasm turned to confusion.
I nodded and got to my feet before turning to Desiree. "Here's a quick demonstration, providing I don't end up crash landing on the roof or anything close." I took one deep breath before saying out loud: "I wish I was back home!"
I closed my eyes shut and thought of my house back home as Desiree's green mist surrounded me. Momentarily it dispersed and I opened my eyes again. My sight greeted me with Sam, Tucker, Danny, and Evelyn sitting on the couch with blank expressions.
"…you're stuck…" They chorused at once.
"Yep…about the only way I can think of is to get Desiree to the portal and then wish myself out." I finished. "The rest, you already know."
"Okay…so what about you Evelyn?" Sam turned to the pink haired girl who had temporarily spaced out.
"Huh…?"
"Back in the Girls Restroom, you said: We all have little secrets we're keeping from each other."
This caught my attention. How did Evelyn become half-ghost? I never heard of her from the TV series. (Considering she's a fan character)
"I did…?" Evelyn thought for a moment before nodding. "Yeah, I did…"
"Not that it's my place to say anything right now but…" I spoke up. Let's get something reviewed: if I think I pissed someone off and they're in the room, I try to avoid getting attention. "I never saw you in one of the episodes…how did you get ghost powers anyway?"
"Well…" She started, "it involves being a test subject…and it has Vlad Plasmius…"
"Long story?" Danny asked.
"Yep…"
"Weird……" I felt a bit concerned at this thought. I didn't want to be suspicious of Evelyn but anything involving Plasmius was BAD NEWS…with fangs and ghost rays.
Tucker looked at her. "How does it involve Vlad in the first place?"
"Being fairly obvious, you do hear my full name being called by the attendance every time a class period starts, right…?" We were all silent. Evelyn sighed and broke the silence: "My full name is Evelyn Bardsley Masters."
"…Masters?!" We all, except Evelyn, chorused simultaneously.
Jaws drop. Birds fly. Crops wilt. It's the sign of the apocalypse!
Kidding
"Bardsley?" Danny spoke up.
"Bardsley is my original family name." Evelyn rolled her eyes. "Vlad adopted me a few months ago after my parents died in a car accident, probably just for publicity. I eventually heard that he was planning to 'take back what was his' and discovered his laboratory while he was out. It turned out Vlad had a ghost portal and it was in the middle of being fixed. I was too curious and went in…"
"Sounds like what happened when Danny first got his powers…" Tucker commented.
"…long story short: I got zapped and the colors of the suit I was wearing got inverted…including my hair and eye color." Evelyn finished. "I can guess the same thing happened to you."
"Sure did." Danny nodded.
"Does Vlad know you're half-ghost?" Sam asked.
"Luckily he doesn't." Evelyn shook her head. "If he did know, one of his goons would've been on me in a matter of days. I didn't trust Vlad and what he would probably have planned if he found out. So I flew here…and he doesn't know it yet. He probably thinks I'm dead."
"At least that gives you an edge…" I pointed out while giving myself a mental boot to the head. I mean, seriously, why did I wish myself in here?! I could just kick myself! "I mean, Vlad doesn't know you're here and that you have ghost powers. Besides, you guys would have a better edge once I'm back where I came from and out of reach."
"You think going into the Ghost Portal and wishing yourself out will work?" Sam gained one of those are-you-joking expressions.
"She was really specific in the wish." Desiree promptly conjured a hand-held cassette player.
"How long have you had that thing?" I asked.
"I usually do this to people who make me their ghost-genie…" The wishing-ghost replied. "Don't say I wasn't prepared."
"Oh ha-ha-ha—" Desire promptly ended my sentence by pressing PLAY and I promptly heard our very early conversation being replayed for the audience to hear.
Desiree promptly stopped the tape. "Mona also added that nothing she would do would interfere with this universe."
"You mean it would be like you didn't exist here?" Danny asked.
Insert affirmative nod here. "That was the plan. And Vlad wouldn't know who I am so nothing like this would happen again in the future."
There was a silence.
"We should probably test out the portal, just to make sure it'll work." Evelyn got out of her seat. "I mean, the sooner the better…right?"
"Yeah, I don't think my parents would mind if I brought you guys along." Danny half smiled before looking at the Fenton Thermos in his hand. "Besides, I've got to send these eight-legged-freaks back."
Fenton Works. I couldn't help staring up at it in mild fascination. Being honest, I never took in the sights around Amity Park even once during my time here. Sure I watched scenes on TV, but nothing like this. Usually I was focused on the characters but I never figured how much time it took the animators to create scenes we could probably relate to in real—
"Hey Mona!" Evelyn snapped me out of my zoning-out experience. "We're going in!"
One thing at a time Mona…one thing at a time…
Desiree had reluctantly been placed in another thermos so she wouldn't have to deal with Arachnea, who I could slightly hear spouting curses and yells of pain which started and ended with: "Once I get outta here I'm gonna—AAAUGH!" from her containment.
Fortunately for us, the parents were out so Jack wouldn't "blabber about ghosts" or we wouldn't have to deal with a "Ghost Detector/Gabber" that would get us all in big trouble. Danny eventually led us to the basement laboratory where we eventually faced the orange and black striped door of the ghost portal.
"Well, this is it." Danny tapped the chrome steel rim like someone would their new car before pressing a button on the nearby control panel. The orange and black stripes were eventually replaced by swirling green and white before Danny opened the thermos and fitted the modified soup-carrier into the holder.
"Down went the thermos and washed the spider out…" Evelyn hummed. We all stared at her with confused expressions as Arachnea and her spider colony disappeared into the infinite depths of the ghost zone, completely unnoticed unlike Evelyn's comment. "What? It seemed like the right moment…"
"Right…" Tucker rolled his eyes, slightly humored, as I unscrewed the lid of Desiree's container. The wishing-ghost promptly came right out and stretched her arms skywards.
"Cramped in there?" I asked, avoiding the standard question.
"Don't wish for ghost powers." Desiree replied after she finished stretching.
"Don't plan to." I responded, closing the thermos and gingerly placing it down on a nearby counter, making sure I didn't knock over any test tubes, before walking towards the ghost-portal so I was at least two meters from it.
"You're really sure this will work?" Evelyn asked.
"I…I've just got to make sure it does…" I bit my lip and got ready. "Ready, Desiree?"
Desiree nodded and I counted down mentally.
"You're really sure about this?" Everyone else looked really unsure.
"If it doesn't work, I owe all you guys lunch at the Nasty Burger." I replied, smiling nervously at them. "Anyway, if I do make it back on the first try, it's been nice meeting you all."
I ran in and Desiree flew in right behind me…into the Ghost Zone.
I turned about and looked directly at Desiree who hovered close by.
"I wish I was back home!"
Desiree waved her hand for what seemed to be the last time as the green mist engulfed me—
—and I was back in my room…
—in my animated house…
…it didn't work…
…I was still stuck…
"No…no…no…NO…!" Out of unbridled frustration, I dealt a kick to the bed mattress and began punching at it before slumping into a defeated sitting-down position. It didn't work and I was going to be trapped in here until the fruit-loop got his claws on me and ruined the storyline! "Nice job Mona! Real good! Why don't you wish for Godzilla to stampede on Amity Park or—or have Freddy Kruger show up?! Then Danny and the others would really be ticked off! Why wouldn't they be?! Because I can't go back home and nothing's going to be returned to normal…and…why…why did I…stupid…can't believe how…idiot…you stupid idiot…"
And I continued beating myself up. I was very good at doing that…
3rd Person POV
Danny, Evelyn, Sam, and Tucker remained standing in front of the ghost zone.
"That's it…she's gone…" Evelyn murmured.
"You think she made it?" Tucker asked.
"Let's hope she did…" Danny was about to turn away from the ghost zone when he heard the alarm go off. "What the—" Desiree reemerged from it with a worried expression just as the halfa shut it off.
"Desiree?" The halfa returned to his original position in the room. "What are you doing here?!"
"Did Mona get back home?" Sam asked.
"Which one…?" Desiree shrugged.
This caused the four teenagers to look at each other.
"What do you mean by: which one?" Sam asked slowly.
No sooner had the bedroom door opened; they all spotted Mona sitting down on the right side of the bed. The brunette turned slowly at the sound of the door opening and looked at the four with a mild depressed expression that had a lot of disappointment behind it.
"…it didn't work…" She said before chuckling humorlessly and looking back down.
"I don't get it. We went into the ghost zone…you wished to get back home…I granted exactly what you said…but you ended up back here…even though this isn't truly your home…" Desiree uncharacteristically itched at her scalp as though she had a headache.
"Desiree…how did you get to my world in the first place?" Mona bit her lip, praying for an idea that would get her out of this mess.
"Alright, ghost-boy trapped me in thermos…" Desiree counted off on her green fingers as she thought. Danny rolled his eyes at the ghost-boy comment. "…got placed into ghost-zone…went through a portal—portal!"
The teenagers jumped at the wishing-ghost's exclamation.
"There was a portal leading to her world?" Danny pointed sideways at Mona who slumped over grumbling: "I should've guessed…"
"Was," Desiree nodded and pointed. "It closed up while she was unconscious and I haven't caught sight of the portal since."
"Then that means her only way out is whatever caused it to open in the first place." Sam pointed.
"If we can find it, we can use it to send her home…" Tucker started to point.
"And we can close the portal just to be sure she's completely out of Vlad's reach!" Evelyn pointed.
"Erm…" Mona chose this moment to speak up, going a bit cross-eyed at a finger that was pretty close to prodding directly in between her eyes. "Guys…? Other than that I'm going to get poked in the eyes for saying this: how are we going to do that when we have no idea about what created the portal in the first place?"
This resulted in a very long silence that had everyone ponder: "How ARE we going to do that?"
All the hands dropped and Mona relaxed before Evelyn's hand abruptly swung upwards, signaling an idea and accidentally smacking the teenager upside her nose. "OW!"
"Vlad's got it! He wouldn't have known that you were from another world unless he was the one who created the portal in the first place!" Evelyn turned to Mona who was holding onto her nose. "No doubt about it! He's got your only way out!"
"Finally some good news," The brunette commented with a small: "Ow…"
"I don't think he's going to just hand it over…" Danny tapped his chin. "When Vlad sinks his claws in something, he's not going to let go."
"Should've gotten a cat…" Mona thought to herself as Sam added another true fact: "And it's not like we can just go to Wisconsin and snag it. That would make us fall into his hands, and we'd really get in trouble."
"Then the only thing we can do now is wait for Vlad to make a move…" Tucker pointed out.
"How long would that take? I can't risk telling Vlad anything that would happen in the future. If he is told about Pariah Dark or even gets a hint about Dark Phantom before it's the right point in time……" The brunette shivered as the thoughts created a chill that ran up her spine.
To Be Continued…
December 27, 2007
As you can probably tell, I'm trying to get this fanfiction finished. The reason why this chapter took so long to finish is because the fanfiction plot outline was buried under a random pile in the room (my room is a mess…and I had to clear out everything in there just to chase one spider which crawled in the room). I've planned for the next chapter to be two-parted like last time and it's going to be based on an episode (necessary for the plot/character development).
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