Our Time Chapter 8

The screams and flashing was over as quickly as it started. The two men stumbled out of the machine and collapsed to the floor. The smoke slowly started to clear from the basement and Jaz rushed to their aid. She sat between the two men and tried to wake them. She patted Danny on the face. His eyes flickered open. "Did it work?" he asked.

He looked down at his hands. They were slightly burnt. He groaned out. "I must have messed up the code! I CAN'T BELIEVE I DIDN'T GET IT RIGHT!" He shouted out. The rage that engulfed him suddenly flashed out in a burst of blue light and he felt the familiar tingling sensation of changing. His burned ruined cloths were quickly replaced by a familiar black and white jumpsuit. His eyes glowed green as the color washed out of his hair.

"Danny!" Jaz asked astonished.

The teen jumped up and tested out his powers. He still knew how to use most of them. He floated up and looked back down at Vlad. He waited to see the man move, to see him wake up or something. Nothing happened. He floated back down and went to the man's side.

He looked the man over. It seemed Masters had taken the worse of the blow. He was bruised and burnt. His chest struggled to rise and fall as he choked out shallow breaths. Danny placed a worried hand on the man's stomach. Tears threatened to spill out of his glowing emerald eyes.

An alarm sounded out loudly suddenly. "Warning, shield failing. Remaining time T minus one minute. Repeat: Warning, shield failing…" The loud alarm brought the teen back to the moment. He had a job ha had to take care of.

"Watch him for me Jaz." Danny rushed out of the house and left behind the hurt man. His heart quickly tore to shreds as the feeling of hopelessness crept over him.

Fright knight flew around the shield barking out battle orders to his minions. The shield was failing fast and the citizens were rushing towards Fenton Works trying desperately to stay in the safe zone. The teen flew down into an unoccupied ally and changed back to his human self. He walked out of the flickering green shield. The ghosts were too busy conducting war meetings to notice his presence. The teen quickly changed back and flew into the air.

"Hey fright nut! Go back to your pumpkin." He shouted. The fright knight turned and looked down at the teen halfa.

"If you think you're going to make me, you're dreaming." The purple fire lit knight charged towards the teen ghost. He pointed his sword at the boy and gave it a wide swing. Danny dodged and countered with a plasma blast. It nicked the ghost's side and sent him off his fiery horse. The teen halfa took the opportunity to fire another blast of condensed ecto-plasmic energy at the ghost.

The Fright Knight countered it with his sword and rushed forward. "You will bow to me boy!" He slashed at the teen's chest. Danny avoided it, only to be hit with a blast of purple energy. He flew backwards in the air, slamming into a tall building.

"Bow to this!" Danny shouted as he sent a blast of icy energy in the knight's direction. The arm that held the sword was frozen over. The teen ghost rushed forward and pried the sword from the ice. The large glowing green blade fell to the ground below.

Fright Knight grabbed Danny by the back of his shirt collar and threw him into a billboard. "I will not loose!" The knight rushed forward and held the teen to the billboard. His arm crushed against the teen's pale skinny neck. Danny tried to turn intangible, but found that he couldn't. His lungs flared up. He couldn't breath. He tried to pry the knight off of him, but couldn't muster the strength.

A blast of purple energy sent the Fright Knight hurling through the open air. Danny slumped down and grasped at his throat. He was overjoyed to be able to breath again. "Need any help?" A familiar voice rang out. Danny looked up and saw Vlad Masters in his ghost form hovering in the air.

"Vlad!" Danny shouted out in astonishment. "You're all right!" The teen floated back up into the air towards the man.

"Well, I'm not sure 'all right' is quite what I'd call this. I woke up with funky ghost powers." He smirked. "I listen to you and I get ghost powers. I don't think I'll be doing that again any time soon."

"Sorry."

"Oh well. What are we going to do about Halloween horror over there?" He gestured to the knight who was quickly regaining his composure.

"Can you duplicate your form?" Danny asked hoping Vlad had a good grip of his powers.

"I'm lucky to be floating. I doubt I can do something like that." He admitted.

"I was afraid of that. Just hit him with another energy blast when he charges us and I'll take it from there. I want you to find a pumpkin after that."

"What, are we having pumpkin pie after this?" Vlad questioned.

"You'll see what it's for. Just trust me." The purple fire covered knight rushed forward yelling out his banter. "Now Vlad!"

A pink wave of energy shot out of the man's hands and nailed the Fright Knight sending him twirling backwards. Masters flew towards the nearest market and left the fight for his partner.

Danny inhaled deeply and let out a ghastly wail. The ghostly sound of it caused nearby windows to break. The knight was caught by the wail and screamed out in horror as it engulfed him. He crashed to the ground writhing in pain. The teen stopped mid wail trying to conserve his energy. He rushed to the ground and looked around for the sword he dropped down a while ago. The teen halfa grabbed at he hilt he saw. A large black clad hand grabbed it before he could though. The Fright Knight laughed a maniacal laugh as he ascended into the air.

The snow haired boy flew up into the air and faced the knight. "You're done now boy!" He lunged forward with his sword.

"Vlad!" Danny yelled out. The older halfa flew up from behind the Fright Knight and threw the pumpkin at the teen. Danny grabbed the orange vegetable and held it in front of him. The motion of the sword carried it forward as the Fright Knight yelled out his disapproval.

Bright green and purple lights flashed as the ghost knight was sucked into the pumpkin. The army of skeleton ghosts disappeared and the small city of Amity was left in peace. The two halfas floated down to the ground and changed back before anyone saw them. They collapsed in exhaustion.

"Ghost powers?" Vlad questioned. He couldn't quite wrap his mind around it.

"Yeah, ghost powers."