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They're Here

Flashback:

Jack payed close attention to the screwdriver in his hand as he turned the tool to tighten the last screw needed to complete his new invention. He called it the Fenton AFM, automatic fudge maker. At last, he could eat fudge and hunt ghosts at the same time. Danny would love it. "Danny!" he called.

But Danny's head did not appear at the top of the stairs that came down to the lab. His wife's, Maddie's, did. "Jack, why are you calling Danny?"

Jack held up the new machine. "I want to show him this. We can use it next time we go ghost hunting as father and son." He explained.

"Did you forget that we threw him out of our family because he's the ghost boy?"

"


Maddie went up to her bedroom. Jack was still on the bed that he'd been on for the last three days, asleep, but not soundly. He had refused to leave his spot, even to hunt ghosts. She'd found out that he'd actually wanted Danny back. Under enough pressure from both Jack and Jazz, she gave in to looking for her son.

Maddie had spent a couple hours for the last few days looking for sightings of him on the Internet. Now she'd finally found him. Maddie shook Jack lightly to wake him. He opened his eyes half-heartedly. "Jack," Maddie whispered. "I found him." Jack sat up, smiling for the first time in days.

"Danny?" he asked. "Where is he?"

"New York," she replied. Jack got out of bed so fast that he someone could've thought that he'd been electrocuted. He grabbed Maddie's hand and ran toward the door.

"To the Fenton RV!" he shouted.


Danny flew around, looking for the ghost. He was positive that it hadn't left since the panicked mother of a five-year-old boy had called them saying that there was a red-eyed soldier in an old British uniform under her son's bed; his ghost sense had gone off when he entered the apartment. The family, of course, had left for a friend's house until the Ghost Busters could call back to say that their home was ghost-free.

Danny felt someone with large, cold hands shove him in the back. He was thrown into the boy's bed. Luckily, it remained intact. Danny turned around. There was a swordsman with red eyes and a white wig, who was covered in mud. "Does this be all who challenge me? I see my opponent is but a boy. Then victory shall be mine, huzza!"

Danny blinked. "I'm a little rusty on ancient English, sorry," he told the soldier.

"I found him!" Danny called to the Ghost Busters. They rushed to the bedroom, with their proton packs on their backs. The ghost's eyes narrowed.

"Calling the treasonous colonists? You shall pay for that." The soldier pulled out his sword and lunged at Danny. Danny backed up quickly, phasing through the outside wall. Danny quickly recovered and flew back in for a fight.


Maddie slammed her fist on the dashboard, frusterated from all the traffic. The only way her day could possibly get worse, she mused, is if Jack was driving. "Come on!" she shouted. "We could walk there faster than this!" Jack's eyes lit up.

"Maddie . . . " he said.

"Oh no, Jack, I didn't mean we were actually going to walk."

"But it's right there!" Jack pointed to a sign on a building two blocks down. The sign said in red letters, 'Ghost Busters' with a picture of a ghost making a peace sign underneath.


A bright beam reached up and sucked the frozen ghost into the trap. The kid was amazing, Egon thought. He had handled himself well for the most part and had ended up saving them from meeting their deaths. He turned to look at Danny, who was floating a few feet away. "Good job, kid."

Danny smiled. "Thanks." His cell phone rang. Danny pulled it off of where it was clipped to his belt and answered.

"Hello? How did you get my number? Okay, then what is? What! They are?" Danny took a few deep breaths. "Okay, I'll see them when we get back." Danny closed his phone. He seemed distant and was staring at an ugly pink sofa with sick shades of green and brown flowers. "They're here," he muttered. "My parents are here."