Chapter Five:
The Day That Never Comes, Part 5
Through the looking glass.
3 Hours later.
Amity Park's Hospital
Danny wakes up in a hospital bed, with his chest covered with bandages.
- I see you are up - says Jazz, sitting next to his bed.
- Yeah.
As soon as he gets up, he puts his clothes back on, and checks on his patient chart clipboard on the holder. He couldn't believe the wounds he had when he got there: both lungs punctured, six broken ribs, (as well as many other bones he didn't even know he had) major abrasions on the torso and shoulders, skull fracture with a terrible concussion that would have killed a human being, and many other wounds the doctor's couldn't quite define, and yet was still able to make it to a hospital -barely alive albeit where doctors said that only his amazing constitution kept him alive after all his punishment and during the surgery.
- The doctors didn't like you transforming in the middle of the surgery. Said that your ghost organs were too hard to work with.
- Really?
- They said they all look the same since they're all green and couldn't tell what was what… or touch them anyway.
- Are you upset? You look upset. You sound upset.
- Upset? Danny I'm mortified.
- Why? I'm fine now. I'm alive, my wounds are already healed. I'm a little sore but I'm fine - said to comfort his sister giving her a smile.
- Danny, you're not fine - cried out taking him by the shoulders. - You… you almost died out there. And then you were out of control, you needed a major surgery, you… you never needed surgery after a battle - sobbed his sister holding her tears. - You aren't healing as you used to. You transformed over and over in the middle of the surgery. What was all that? What happened there?
Danny sighs deeply.
- You name it. All of my enemies, Technus, Spectra, Skulker, Aragon, the Fright Knight, Ember… Everything I thought I could handle and I couldn't. I was such a fool to think that they would never grow past me… - he mourned. - But now I know what I'm dealing with. And this time when I go for the rematch, I'm going to win… How is this place still standing anyway? - asked confused about how could the hospital remain intact.
- It has its own ghost shield class seven generator. Now don't change the subject. What makes you think I'm letting you go out there to fight them again?
- Because… you are the kind of big sister that lets her little brother do what he wants when their parents are gone?
- Try again.
- You're not letting me go, are you?
- No.
- But… the city needs me or whatever is left of. I can't just stay here doing nothing.
- That's exactly what you should be doing! Getting into a fight without thinking is what got you here in the first place. Do you even remember what happened?
- Actually I can't remember too much of what happened after you showed up.
Jazz sighs deeply, sitting prone on the bed.
- I wish I couldn't remember that either…
- Why? What happened? Did anybody…? Did I hurt anybody?
- When Technus did… whatever he did to you… it was like if you weren't you at all. You were out of control, you were like a savage animal on the loose…
7:12 PM UTC
His hair had become fire, a sing he had reached the zenith of his power. Danny's fractured core released all its power out of his body in violent bursts of energy, shifting between ghost energy and cold energy waves, and every stream of energy that came out of him would destroy or freeze everything they hit.
Floating in the air, he roars in pain even louder than before, overwhelmed by the uncontrollable power that so savagely overtakes his body.
- Danny! Danny what's happening?! - asked his sister, worried as she had never been before.
Danny tries to hold back his power, almost hitting his sister with a swirling stream of ghost energy.
- Jazz, what are you doing? He is too dangerous to be close to. - Claims Valerie, taking her away from Danny.
- No! He needs me.
- The power… is just too much… its hurts how it burns… but is also s-so cold at the-e s-same time - he drawled and stuttered feeling his body shattered, burned and somehow frozen by his energy. It was like the first time his ice powers manifested only but a thousand times worst.
- Danny, whatever is going don't keep it to your self! You have to let it go!
- J-Jazz is ri-right. - said to himself - I-It's like Frostbite said, to control this power I-I gotta let it out all at once.
Putting himself over the pain, he concentrates and lets go all that savage energy that burdens him out of his body, glaring like a green and blue cold sun.
The energy he expels jeopardizes everyone and everything around him, freezing it or destroying it. Friend or enemy… his power didn't know the difference, but at least now he had it under control. In fact, it was more control than he ever had in his life.
- The power… this power… it burns and freezes my body at the same time, but… it doesn't hurt anymore. Instead it makes me feel… awesome! It makes me feel free!
- Danny! Are you ok? - asked Valerie fading her ghost shield covered in snow, which she used to protect herself along with Tucker and Jazz.
- Ok? I'm more than ok. I can feel it now. This is what it feels like. All this power. All that energy… I feel a huge energy as if… I could do anything! - He claimed using his now greatly enhanced telekinesis to lift his enemies behind their ghost shield - All this power at my disposal. All limitless.
- Guys, I think Danny's talking nonsense. - pointed out Valerie.
- Nonsense? You couldn't be anymore wrong. I see it all clear now. Don't you get it?! I have ascended to a whole new level. I see and feel my conscience going to and fro beyond this earthly realm and see the only truth that matters: that I'm a being of power and I exist only for it!
- …Oh yeah, this baby is broken - she replied.
- Broken? I am not broken. I am UNLIMITED! Every power I've had and I'll have, powers I didn't even know or suspected I had. Now I can see and feel the bond that brings my matter together, and not only mine, but yours and everything around me.
- Why don't you feel this? - asked Skulker popping out two light ring-shaped missile launchers from his shoulders firing all his ammo.
The missiles stop as soon as they are fired right in front of his face by Danny's simplest thought.
- You know, I could turn this missiles into mercury, with the snap of my fingers now, or just simply put them to a much better use. - said putting the missiles in his face.
- You know, for a guy that complained about me talking too much, you really have a thing for blubber - said Technus shooting him from behind with his hands shaped as a plasma cannon.
The powerful blue blast could have easily harmed Danny in the past, but now the attack is absorbed by his body causing no harm whatsoever.
- You… - suddenly, Danny feels how all that powers fades away the same way it came and throws his enemies at Technus before losing all his power.
Danny tumbles onto the ground with his ghost hair back to normal, getting hurt and realizing he was once again vulnerable and powerless.
- Soon! We must get him while he is still vulnerable! - commanded Skulker. - Technus, I don't know what you did to that kid, but you better don't do that again.
- Oh no, I don't think so - said Valerie summoning her cube cannons and blasting him in the back with her purple ghost rays.
Outrageous, he hurled at Valerie transforming into a giant black lion and jumping on her only to get caught by her hovering board and zapped with its ghost stinger.
- Ha! The Ghost Zone's best hunter my ass.
The Fright Knight phased into the ground and jumped in front of Valerie, treating with slaying her but Jazz blocks him wearing the Fenton Peeler, and blasting him in the face.
- Thanks, red.
- You are welcome.
- You guys are useless without me - claimed Ember turning her guitar into a blazing axe to decapitate a powerless Danny.
- I'm warning you, back off bitch! - he yelled overwhelmed by his cold energy again.
- Make me - she blurted as she got closer to him.
- I said… back off! - he roared waving his right hand, unleashing a powerful cold energy wave, creating very long and sharp ice shards rising from the ground around him, almost hitting Ember in the face.
Shivering in cold, his hair slowly began to ablaze and his skin began to darken one more time.
- Te-te-te-technus… yo-you are gonna pay for this. Whatever you did to me, I'm gonna kill you for it! - he yelled with his green eyes blazing. - I'm gonna tear you apart molecule by molecule.
- Wow, he really is your father's son - Valerie said to Jazz. - Now how do we stop your brother from going nuclear ghost again?
- I don't know - she said kicking Spectra in the face -, I don't even know what's wrong with him.
- Ha! You have lost all control over your powers whatsoever. I love it! This is even better than see you powerless.
- Are you insane?! - asked Skulker breaking valerie's board. - The kid is even more dangerous and powerful now.
- Powerful, but dangerous. Look at him. He is so overwhelmed by his powers now, that he can't fight us because he is to busy fighting with them.
- I hate to break up your little bubble but he almost pierced my face! - replied Ember, angry.
- That's just a sharpy ice wall. You gonna let that stop you now?- said blasting the ice shards. - Wait a minute, where is he now? - he asked when he saw that Danny was gone.
- He-ey fuckers, are you looking for me? - stuttered from above. - Well, here you got me - said rising his hands, concentrating as much energy as he could control, with blue energy rings spiraling around them and fired an intense blue plasma ray at Skulker, Ember and Technus.
This one summons a powerful ghost shield, but it barely withstands the attack.
- All right, I don't now what's going on with my powers, but whatever it is, it seems to have its benefits. I guess I can put this problem to some good, I just have to be careful with how much energy do I use… or use it when is not killing me or before it's gone… - He said to himself, feeling his powers stabilizing.
But his thoughts are interrupted by the girly scream of his sister, Valerie and Tucker.
In all the disarray, he forgot about them and now Aragon, Spectra and the Fright Knight had them at their mercy, threatening with slicing their throats.
-What is it gonna be child? Your life or theirs? - asked Aragon in his hybrid form, holding Jazz's throat with his claws.
- You… leave them… alone! - he growled flying at such stunning speed it seemed he teleported before them, hitting Aragon in the face, releasing his sister.
Channeling his energy through his feet, he kicks Spectra in the chest so hard she is left wind out and punches the Fright Knight with such strength that for a second he thought he would rip his head off.
- You got fast now, but you think you got faster than bullets? - asked Skulker pulling out his guns, but Danny appeared in front of him before he could pull the trigger and broke his weapons.
- Now what big boy? - asked throwing him into the water. - I guess the little kitten cannot swim. Which leaves you alone - fumed at Ember.
- Not for too long - she responded rising her hand to play again.
- Oh, I think no - he said freezing her arm with his cold vision.
- My arm! - she roared in pain with her arm burned with by the ice.
Promptly, he kicks her guitar, grabs her by the neck and slammed her head against the floor.
Once again he was losing control. His rage took over him, all his power began to blind him, and deep down inside, he was loving it. The feeling he had with his power running wild, losing all control, attacking his enemies so ferociously, beating them the way he so wanted to do ever since he meet them was the most pleasant thing he ever felt.
But his action make his sister stare at him in awe, horrified by his doing.
- Impressive. I knew you had it in you kid - uttered Technus -, I knew you had it in you all along. All that power and rage, all that darkness sleeping inside you, waiting to break loose, and all you had to do was let it go all out in its most savage form.
- If you wanna talk then you're gonna hear my voice when shouting out loud! - yelled using his ghostly wail despite being inside the Perfect Pitch field.
- What?! Wait. No, this can be possible! - Technus cried out in shock by Danny overcoming his invention.
With his power fluctuating, his ghostly wail was on a different scale, and even though the Perfect Pitch field was still diminishing its effect, it had power enough to make the whole pier tremble until his power was already gone. With Technus on the ground, he goes human and then ghost again.
His sister Jazz ran at him as fast as she could.
- Danny, what's going on with you?
- My powers… I can't control them. I-I feel like a nuclear bomb. I could explode at any second, unless.
With his powers kicking back as insane horses, he ran at Valerie and took the Ecto-Energy Disrupting Bomb his parents have been working on at Axion labs. His idea was to use in order to destroy the unilateral ghost shield, but having lost control over his powers was not in his plans, and by having no control over his energy he was a threat for his friends the same way he was for his foes, and he could only see a solution for his dilemma. It was stupid, but stupid is what got him this far in the first place; he was going to disrupt his ghost energy with the bomb.
Putting it on his chest, very close to his heart, he triggered the bomb, suppressing almost all of the wild energies that ran wild out of him. Then everything goes black for him.
Spectra, Technus, Fright Knight and Aragon tried to kill him, now that he was weak again and could barely maintain his ghost form.
Jazz, Tucker and Valerie fought to protect him, but their forces were nothing for them, even weakened after their fight, and were forced to escape with Danny to a hospital.