Chapter Two:
The Day That Never Comes, Part 2
What got lost in the storm
Inside the Fright Knight's ecto-tornado, Danny fights the duck objects that got struck by a lightning and turned into monsters.
- Damn it. I gotta get out of here… - says kicking a monster forklift truck in the mouth, breaking its jaw and shattering it steel fangs, while inside a metallic container monster mouth, trapped by several black gooey tentacles.
- How long until he gets out of that storm? - ask Ember.
- I say ten minutes top with the last two included - states Skulker.
- Don't think so. - States the Fright Knight. - Not with my monsters inside. He needs at least twenty.
- Don't be so sure. We both know he is much tougher than that.
- Yea, but not that though.
- Wanna put money where your mouth is? - Skulker taking out a hundred.
- I don't have a mouth. And yea, I accept your wager. - Says the Fright Knight taking out a hundred from his pockets.
- Are you really going to bet on how long is going to take him to escape the tornado? - asks Spectra.
- You gonna bitch, or you gonna join us? - asks Skulker.
- Both. Two hundred that he gets out in fifteen from now.
In that moment, Danny senses something is off.
- Why do I feel like somebody is betting on my life? - asks freezing the goo tentacles that hold him captive to break free and generating a repulsion field so intense, it blows the monster he was in, getting covered in pink ectoplasm.
- Ha-ha. Well, this is going to be gas - states looking at the rest of the monsters flying inside the tornado waiting to kill him. - So who wants to be next? Don't worry, I don't bite.
Every creature inside began to roar, howl and squeal whilst coming at him.
Fifteen minutes later, Danny escapes the ecto-tornado, with his jumpsuit ragged and severely wounded, after defeating all the monsters inside.
- See? Fifteen. Now pay me.
- Well done, ghost brat. You just cost me a hundred dollars - claims Skulker while Spectra puts her money in her breast.
- You were betting on my life? That's a new low I didn't expect you to get this quite soon.
With open arms, Danny concentrates his ecto-energy in each hand and thrust them forwards shooting out a streaming beam of white ecto-energy, but the Fright Knight summons a purple force field from his shield to protect his team.
- You can create ghost shields with your shield? Now that's redundant.
- Mayhap thy enemy hath made a superfluous weapon, yet, its functionality can't be argued as my power grows stronger and yours keep dwindling.
- What?
- It means you are getting weaker, you genius - explains Ember.
- Oh, that. I'll show you how weak I'm - says turning his eyes completely green. - Believe me, I'm nowhere near close to getting tired yet.
Even though he seemed to be able to keep going, Danny was in fact growing weaker any second.
Rising his hands, he concentrates even more of his ghost energy on them and fires another streaming white ghost ray with even more power than before.
The Fright Knight's ecto-shield withstands the attack for a while but the ghost ray eventually breaks through followed by a white energy wave he repels with a purple energy wave from his sword.
- Who is the weak now?
- Still you - replies with his eyes blazing.
With Ember playing her guitar, the Fright Knight assaults Danny so he fast he can't react until he stands before with his new Soul Shredder, slaying his mid section, but his sword passes without stopping, like cutting through water.
Danny laughs at him, something he regrets the second he gets slammed in the face by the shield.
The Fright Knight opens his cape, unleashing a swarm of purple fire bats on Danny.
Instinctively, he creates a full dome ghost-shield and fills it with the coldest frost he can create to prevent any burn.
His instinct proves to be right and saves him from a scorching fate.
- Oh great, I trapped my self in a giant snowball. Well done hero. Stupid instinct. Now what?
Amity Mall.
5:16 P.M. UTC
Jazz watches her younger brother's fight transmitted on the mall's new jumbo screen.
- Oh my glob, Danny! - quickly, she takes out her phone to text Danny to know how he is. - Please Danny, be ok - says while watching her brother's enemies toy with him like a ball. - And who had the idea of putting a jumbo screen at the mall anyway? That's for stadiums.
- Attention costumers. Due to the ghost menace in the city, we've being forced to perform a full lockdown with ecto-shields that works on humans too, so no one can get in or out. Please continue with your activities till you see an actual ghost.
- Oh great. Just what I needed. Now I'm trapped here.
Danny's Giant Snowball
5:17 P.M. UTC
- How great? They're using me as a soccer ball so hard that now I'm starting to hear a buzzing in my head. No wait, that's my phone. Good! For a second I thought I had a concussion - states checking his messages. - Ah, is Jazz. I knew this was going to happen.
Meanwhile, outside his snowball, Ember hits him using her guitar like baseball bat smashing his snowball against a warehouse.
- Damn it, I'm fine. This ain't my worst beat up - replies Danny to his sister.
- Well, guess who's texting during battle - claims Ember.
- Yeah, that's what I do now, and just a second ago I tweeted: "I wish Ember was one of those celebrities that had a sex scandal with nude photos of her on the internet so I wouldn't have to pay to watch her in a strip club."
Without realizing, Danny actually hurts her feelings making her angrier than ever.
With her eyes glowing red and her hair blazing, she turns her it into an axe-guitar, bursting in red energy, releasing a huge ghost energy wave from the blades.
Summoning a ghost shield, he blocks the first wave which easily breaks through, and rapidly runs from the second wave.
- Ok, hashtag certain fire girl just got burned. Hashtag she is not so thick skin - says Danny whilst running and avoiding her attacks and blasting the monsters in the pier. - And tweet! Hey somebody just asked me for your new place of employment! What should I say?
- You are so fucking dead! - shouted enraged.
- I don't think that's the answer he or she wants to hear.
Concentrating all her energy in her axe-guitar, Ember onslaughts him with power enough to break in half the ship behind Danny who promptly phases into the floor to avoid any harm.
- Ember, don't waste your energy on futile attacks! Remember what you are supposed to play here - yelled Technus, scolding her.
- You brought her here only to be the live soundtrack of the battle?
- You'd be surprised to see how useful music can be to keep going on a battle - states using her ghostly wail on him.
- Ok… I'll admit maybe is not such a good idea to make fun of you and… Hold on a second, I just got another text from my sis'. "Ain't my worst beat up? Are you trying to talk black in a text" My god, can you believe this? - he asks to his enemies showing them his phone.
- That's it - yells Skulker from above, blasting the phone with his pink wrist laser. - Now stop playing games with us and fight us like a real man. And by fight I mean die.
- I'm just seventeen, I'm not a man yet, I'm still a teenager. I'm like six months too young to vote or rolling in the army, let alone to die like a man. And, that was a two thousand dollar phone! Do you think I get those things for free just for showing my face on their commercials? Ah! Do you?
- Well… yeah. You are a celebrity now. You saved the world. I always thought you got free stuff for that.
- You know nothing about me or my personal life. Which makes the fact that you were completely right absolutely remarkable.
- Hey, you heard that? I was right - says Skulker excited.
- You know what you get for that? A blast in the face - says firing a powerful green plasma ray aimed to his face, which he ducks, and immediately teleports behind Skulker. - And this is for my phone - says attacking him in the back with a large ecto-energy ball.
The Fright Knight rushes forth from above but Danny swings and kicks him in the stomach with all his strength, releasing an energy wave from his foot to strengthen the impact, making him crash against Skulker.
- Right in the mommy and daddy button - he cried.
- Did you just say the mommy and daddy button?
- I think FK and Skulker spend way too many time together - states Ember.
Aragon elongates his dragon arm and uses a red ghost stinger on Danny causing him great pain. Redirecting the energy going through his body to his hands, he uses Aragon's ghost stinger with his own against him with more power, but despite that, he remains unharmed.
- You see that? My skin is to dry and thick to conduct electricity - explained with a wicked smile in his face, squeezing Danny with his white glowing hand.
- Damn it, let me go! - screams struggling to break free of his overwhelming grasp. - Why is he…? He's too strong for me, and I can't go intangible either.
- That's right. Now that I, Technus, have upgraded each one of my…
- Dare to say lackey and you are dead - interrupts Ember with her eyes glowing red and hair bursting.
- …associates, we are not only stronger than you, but we also have a countermeasure for each one of your ghost powers and each trick we've seen. Now you can't phase your way out of here and no matter how hard you fight, no matter if you wound us or how bad you do it, we shall rise neat and shiny.
- Oh, is that so? Then I guess I'll have to come up with some tricks you haven't seen.
- We'll see about that - states Aragon rising his left claw to maul Danny, but this one turns into blue mist, something he has never done before with any of his present foes, and escapes from his hand, letting Aragon cut to himself instead, who immediately shrieks like a girl.
- Man, you just lost all the manly you had. You cut yourself and screamed like a little girl. No wonder why you have to kidnap girls to make them your girlfriends.
- "Density shifting. That's certainly an ability that I've never seen before on him… One that I have no countermeasure for. This might be a trouble for my plans." - Thinks Technus.
- You shall pay for this! - roars breathing out a large streaming purple flare.
In a white flash of light, he disappears before the fire reaches him and reappears behind Aragon, duplicating his form four times.
- "He is a teleporter too? And here I thought after all our fights I new all of his powers and limitations by now. Ah well, I guess you never truly now someone. Now let's see what are you true limitations. What are you made of."
Aragon gets blasted in the back, by a streaming white ghost ray from Danny and two of his clones while the other two freeze his mouth.
Opening his wings eyes, he blasts the two clones in front of him and then twists his eyes to the back of his wings to shoot the original Danny and his other clones, leaving him with his body steaming and sore.
Using his trident-point tail, he grabs Danny by the neck but he uses his mist form to escape again from him. Aragon repeatedly tries to grab him, only to see him escape using this power over and over.
- I'd like to go in and help Aragon, but watch him try to grab that brat and fail over and over is just too darn funny - states Skulker. - Just like those old mouse and cat cartoons.
- Share the feeling, mate - agreed the Fright Knight sympathizing with him, as well as his teammates.
- You gotta realize that this is useless at some point, you know? - exclaims materializing behind Aragon and blasting him in the back of his head.
- Aren't you going to help? - asks Aragon to his so called team.
- No. You are doing a pretty great job putting yourself in ridiculous - answers the Fright Knight.
- How long until it gets boring? - asks Ember.
- I don't know. It has like ten minutes top.
Twelve minutes later.
- Ok, this just got bore - states Skulker.
- He is right, let's get this over with - says creating a giant ice gavel, he uses to pound Aragon on the head with all his strength, knocking him out. - Case dismissed. See, that's why in hammer we trust - claimed with a wide smile, leaning on his gavel. - I guess I judge you wrong. You may look tougher than before, but you are the wuss as always.
"In that moment, my whole body shivers. I my ghost sense goes on and I feel it again. That cold thing right where my stomach should be, only but colder."
Out of the bloom Spectra appears to kick him in the back with her sharp hill but before she gets him, he blocks her attack with another kick.
- Nice try Spectra. You got me once, shame on you, you got me twice shame on me, or was it the other way around? Well, doesn't matter. I have a giant hammer and you don't.
Rising his ice gavel, he prepares to smash her, but this begins to melt the second it touches her black flaming hair.
- Well, that's a bloody mess - he said disappointed, looking a the remaining handle of his gavel, throwing it over his shoulder. The handle hits Aragon's head, who was just starting to wake up. - Time for some good old fashioned energy fists.
With his eyes and fists glowing green, Danny tries to punch her, but Spectra easily dodges his blows with astonishing speed and reflexes, almost dancing around and slashing him with her claws. Every movement she made was like if she knew Danny's movements even before he did.
- What's the matter, sweetie? You got problems with hitting a lady? - asks punching him in the face. - Because as you can see I don't.
- You a lady? Yeah right.
- Well, isn't that paragon? Doesn't matter. You can't hit me anyway. Because, like Skulker I have all of your movements programed into my new body, programed into my new EDNA.
- Your Edna?
- Is a shorter for Ecto-DNA, which is actually shorter for Ectoplasmic DNA, which is actually shorter for something that I'm not even gonna begin to try to pronounce - explains Ember, with a hint of sarcasm in her voice.
- So I'm guessing that trying beat you in a hand-to-hand is useless then. No problem, all I gotta do is use the good old fashion freeze ray.
Danny uses his cold plasma rays to freeze Spectra like he did before, but this time she dodges every blast the same way she dodged his blows before, using her reflexes, speed and an equally astonishing agility she hasn't shown before, moving between his legs to get behind him.
- Freeze me once, shame on me. Freeze me twice, shame on you - states jumping over him, avoiding a cold energy wave.
With every failed attack, he soon began to grow desperate and angry.
- Seriously, what part of all your movements programed into my new DNA you don't understand? I know what you gonna do even before you do. Right now you going to shoot me with a plasma ray - says dodging the attack - now you are going to use your fists again - says moving around him, twisting his arm - and now you are going to use your freeze touch to freeze my hand - claims turning her hand into her acid black fire.
Spectra's touch melts his suit and slowly begins to burn Danny's arm making him squeal in great pain.
-"My gosh. She is melting my arm and it fucking hurts. Ok, thinkthinkthink. Damn it's too much pain. I can't think. Use your instinct." - Following his instinct, Danny yells louder and cries as she reaches his bone. - "Ok my instinct didn't work. Stupid instinct! What else do you got?" - asks himself - Oh forget it, my instincts are useless. Time go back to basic - says shooting a streaming green ghost ray from his hands, forcing Spectra to let go Danny's arm free.
- I knew you'll do that. Shoot me so I can let your arm go, but why didn't you turn into mist this time?
- Why not?! I'll tell you why not! Because… I… well… you see, I… I don't have to explain myself to you! - raged unleashing a barrage of disk-shaped plasma rays, and missing every shoot.
Spectra moves with great speed, dodging his blast, going onward and upward, grabbing Danny's face and tossing him against the floor with her superior strength, creating a huge crater.
- Aaaaaaaaaaahhhhhh… this feels so good… - yells satisfied with her whole body glowing red and getting even more muscular.
"I don't know what I hate the most. Whether the fact that she is now stronger than I, or that she still looks incredibly hot even when she has more muscles than I do. And that really sheer dress doesn't help… Hmmm… maybe giving boners is part of her new set of powers."
- I'm glad at least one of us is having fun - exclaimed laying on the floor, trying to relocate his broken ribs.
- Oh, I'm having the time of my life. Too bad yours is about to end.
Moving at full speed, she traps him in the floor with her flaming fingers enlarged, shaped almost as a cage.
- Let me go, you wannabe cougar! - screamed creating two ice swords, slaying her palm.
- Oh, another boy who likes to play with swords. Why am I not surprised? Always trying to see who has the biggest sword.
- Should I be offended for that comment? - inquires the Fright Knight.
- Don't worry. That's what she does - answers Skulker, showing up next to him. - She makes you feel bad about everything. That's her superpower, being a super bitch.
- Well, if that's how you wanna play… - said shaping her hands into black flaming blades.
Instinctively, Danny slides back using his ecto-energy, barely avoiding the first blow and blocking the second blow, crossing both swords over his head, but Spectra cuts wide open his chest. Naturally, he tries to kick her but she dodges his attack, by gracefully swinging over him and slays his back, bring him to his knees.
Channeling her energy through her right hand-blade, she delivers a powerful blow he blocks with his ice sword which easily breaks for the impact.
"I'm starting to think that I should have paid more attention to Zuko when he was using his swords, 'cuz I'm definitely not a Blue Spirit. If I were one I could cut her damn head off right now".
Spectra avoids Danny's rageful blows with no strain and slashes him in the chest by the second time, leaving a huge "X" mark on his chest. The pain of her hand cutting him and her acid fire burning his skin delights Spectra, making her red eyes glow even more.
- Oh, my boy, I'm really gonna miss you when you are gone. If only I could keep you as my private fount of youth, you my favorite cry baby - drawled Spectra with derision.
- Shut the FUCK UP! - screamed sending a massive cold energy wave through his remaining sword. Spectra's new oven reflexes allows her to avoid the attack.
- Looks who just got burned. Not so thick skin now, aren't ya?
- SHUT UP! - shouts, onslaughting Ember with his freeze vision.
The Fright Knight stops his attack, by firing a purple plasma ray from his sword, to save Ember.
- Maybe is about time we get this over with - he exclaims.
Out of the blue, Skulker attacks Danny, jumping in his back and spinning with an animalistic agility, so fast that not even his ghost sense could warn him.
Guys In White's Headquarters, Amity Park. I mean seriously, how many headquarters do they have and why would any other outside the city would be relevant to the history? God!
6:08 PM UTC
- Agent M, sir. Maybe you and the agents J and K should see this - says an G.I.W. operative looking at Danny's battle on his computer, while the rest of the agents watch the streets cameras looking for any ghost in the city using the infrared spectrum.
- What in the bloody hell is this? - asks Agent M, commander officer of the Guys in White.
- If I ought to guess, I'd say is K losing our bet - says Agent J, who had a bet with his partner on whether if Danny would win this time or not.
- Hold on, I think he is still moving. Yeah, he's getting back on the horse, literally.
- Well, not anymore. That's one tough pony.
- Could the two of you stop your childish games for once in your live and focus on the main problem at hand here? - scolded Agent M to J and K.
- Yes sir. - Answer both prone, at the same time.
- This is a human being we're talking about here, or… half of it, and he's caught fighting in a storm filled with monsters that could tear this place apart! Do you see where I'm going with this?
- Are you asking us to go save him, sir?
- No, that ship is sailed.
- Then… what do you want us to do, sir?
- Watch the big picture! - yells pressing the zoom out button of the screen. - See that ecto-tornado he's fighting in? Its lightning turned everything they struck into monsters, and if that thing gets to the city, then we'd be facing a catastrophic climatic event worst than the one Vortex caused last year, and not only that but also the entire city will be infested by ghostly monsters or even worst, it might turn the entire city into a giant monster, with all of its inhabitants as well, or at least those who won't get killed. The city's greatest threat is not the ghost but the storm they bring with them. Now you see the bigger picture?
- Yes sir!
- Great. Now prepare the tanks, jets, helicopters, invisibility suits and submarines. I want you two to evacuate the city and prepare for the worst. Prepare to take the city when they come, no matter how many operatives do we need out in the streets for that.
- Eh, sir we don't have submarines. The government cancelled that project.
- I know. When said submarines, I meant the sandwich, I'm damn hungry.
Back at the ducks.
Danny uselessly fights both, Skulker and Spectra, who easily dodge and block all of his attack with anticipation and beat him like a punching bag, while Ember keeps playing her guitar and Aragon breathes a purple flare around him.
- Sir, the city has become plagued with their white knights and…
- Lem'me guess, they're evacuating the city as fast as they can, aren't they?
- Aye. How did you…?
- Fright Knight, my boy. Don't you see this was part of my plan all along? I didn't come here just to fight him and take his life. I want to take something more important and for that I need to scare everyone away from the city. Now, I want you to go out there, take Nightmare and the storm with you and cause as much chaos, panic and havoc as you can. I want you to teach this city the meaning of the word fear.
- Fear: noun, the feeling or condition of being afraid. I should know that, I'm the spirit of Halloween.
- I didn't… Just go so stage two of my plan can proceed!
Obeying to his leader, the Fright Knight teleports over his black horse Nightmare and began to gallop in the sky, towards the city followed by his storm of nightmares, leaving a clone behind.
- I don't know what's wrong with this minions, they just get dumber and dumber every year.
With Danny fighting over his life against two ridiculously empowered enemies whose power seems to have no limits and a duplicate, Technus' plan is set in motion just as he envisioned it would be. Having all the pieces in the right place, yanking the strings like a sinister puppeteer, he was now bound to achieve his goal and get his now long time wanted price.
- I can't believe I'm saying this to the hottest woman I've ever seen but GET OFF ME! - yells Danny to Spectra who was on top of him, twisting and dislocating his arm, and enjoying the moment and pain.
- I can't believe I'm saying this too but I'm glad ain't in your position - states Skulker. - Oh, take a look at that. Looks like Spooky took his little pony to the city.
- Do you know what that means? - asks Spectra licking his ear. - Of course you do, you are a responsible kid. Responsible for their safety and well being.
- You know is hard to think with a tongue in my ear, don't you? And I can't believe I said that too.
- Don't put it on me, you have a hard time thinking, period. It means that your beloved city is going to be ravished by the worst of all storm. A nightmare storm and everyone and everything you ever knew and loved will be turned or devoured by monsters.
- What?! No! - yelled Danny,crushed by the weight of Spectra's new body which has a higher density than the others she had and was really heavy - Agh, damn. How can you be so fucking heavy?