Chapter 8: Secret's Revealed

Jeremy waited as he sat at his desk while Odd was on Jeremy's bed. Yumi had to go home so they promised to tell her how the confrontation went, "What's taking Danny so long?" Odd asked as he threw a rubber ball at the wall before catching it and throwing it again, "I mean come on the giant meat monster disappeared hours ago!"

"I don't know." Jeremy admitted before bringing up the video feed of the fight on his laptop, "But Phantom took quite a beating in that fight." Then it showed Phantom going through the wall, "That's going to leave a mark."

"Yeah but he should be back… You don't think-." Odd left that hanging when Jeremy's phone went off.

"Hello?"

"Factory now!" It was Ulrich's voice.

"Ulrich? What's going on?" Jeremy asked.

"I'll explain at the Factory!" With that Ulrich hung up.

Putting the phone in his pocket Jeremy looked at Odd, "Come on!" With that they took off towards the forest where the manhole cover was at, narrowly avoiding Jim who was escorting Sissi to her room after catching her waiting outside the door to Ulrich and Odd's room.

"… He really needs to get a restraining order." Odd commented and Jeremy agreed with a nod of his head because there was something very wrong with Sissi.

They made it through the Sewer meeting Yumi on the way who got the same message from Ulrich but when they got to the Factory they saw Ulrich with some kind of green goo on his shirt.

"What's with the glow?" Odd asked bewildered.

"It's easier to see rather than to explain." Ulrich said and they got into the elevator, "It's about Danny."

That got them into the elevator faster and in a second they found themselves in the Computer Room where Danny was leaning against the wall bleeding green blood from his mouth and nose in the Phantom Costume.

"DANNY!" They all ran towards him only to see that he was unconscious.

"Where did you find him?" Jeremy asked as he checked for signs of broken bones.

"I jumped down into the Sewer after seeing a few flashes of light and I saw Phantom take his mask off to show Danny here."

"Wow! You were actually right Einstein!" Odd remarked, "But how is he able to do this?"

"Forget that! Get him to the Scanner!" Jeremy ordered.

"How would the Scanners help?" Yumi asked but she took Danny's arms and picked him up.

"The Scanners will put him in Lyoko and he will heal slowly inside there with no pain." Jeremy explained getting on the Supercomputer, "After about an hour or so he'll be good as new."

"Okay Einstein!" Odd helped Yumi with Danny while Ulrich stayed with Jeremy.

"But how can he do the things he did?" Ulrich asked as Jeremy set up the Virtualization process.

"That's what I intend to ask him when he conscious." Jeremy told him, "Odd! Yumi! Do you have him in there?"

"He's ready to go!" Yumi called up.

With a nod Jeremy started, "Transfer Danny. Scanner Danny. Virtualization!"

~In Lyoko~

Danny groaned as he opened his eyes before falling flat on his face, "OW!" He shook his head and got up to see that he was in the Mountain Region of Lyoko, "How the hell did I get here?" He muttered.

"Danny? Are you conscious?" Jeremy's voice called out.

"Einstein?" Danny went pale as he remembered what happened before he passed out, "D-Did you guys-?"

"We know that you're Phantom!" Jeremy said.

"… CRAP!" Danny shouted in anger.

"Hey Dan!" Odd's voice came up, "Great to see you up! Man you looked like crap before we got you in here… Smelled like it too!"

"Oh ha-ha Kiwi smells worse on a bad day." Danny countered sarcastically wanting to get out of there because they knew who he was now… But why weren't they freaking out?

"So you're a Vigilante huh?" Ulrich asked trying to pass the time.

Danny sighed, "Blame Odd."

"HUH?! How am I to blame?!" Odd shouted.

"You're the one who put the idea in my head before I became Phantom!" Danny explained trying to act normal.

"Danny who exactly are you?" Yumi's voice came up and Danny looked down because he really hoped that he would have more time to tell them but there was no way for him to get out of this one.

Then he saw Aelita walking towards him, "I heard from Jeremy about what happened."

"… Aelita did you know about this?" Jeremy asked in confusion.

"… I swore her to secrecy." Danny admitted, "It's not easy to explain what I am."

"Well can you try so we can understand?" Jeremy asked, "I mean, why didn't you tell us?"

Danny sighed, "Because I was scared of how you guys would react." He finally admitted.

"Come on Dan!" Odd encouraged, "How bad can it be? I mean it's not like you're dead or anything right?"

"…" Danny's silence was enough answer for them.

"No way!" Ulrich sounded shocked.

"How is that possible?" Yumi asked trying to wrap her head around that thought.

"I swear that I was kidding!" Odd protested with his hands up.

"How did this happen?" Jeremy got the group focused on what was important.

Danny looked at Aelita who gave him an encouraging smile so with a sigh he told them everything from the Accident to him finding the Flyer and to him making it to the Academy.

"You ran away from home?" Yumi didn't expect that one.

"I panicked!" Danny cried out, "My Parents are Ghost Hunters and I'm now a Ghost! You can see the many things that can go wrong if they find out?"

"Man that has to stink." Odd muttered, "But that was quite a coincidence on finding the Flyer!"

"Yeah if that didn't happen I would never have met you guys." Danny said waiting for them to reject him for being a Ghost.

Jeremy was silent for a bit before he spoke up, "Danny… I think there's a way to bring you back to life."

Now Danny's eyes widened in pure shock, "Say what?!"

"Whoa Belpois!" Ulrich cut in, "Please tell me you're not talking about Necromancy!"

"You watch too many horror movies." Jeremy countered, "No I think that Lyoko can bring him back to life!"

"Care to elaborate Einstein?" Odd asked in a bored tone.

"It's like this! We can materialize Aelita into the real world but from what I can see we can change DNA in Lyoko… If I'm given enough time I 'might' be able to change his DNA to where he'll be alive again!" Jeremy explained stressing on the word might, "But it would take his powers away as well."

"But if this machine can bring the dead back to life and take powers away then it can give powers?" Yumi realized.

"COOL!" Odd shouted.

Yumi shook her head, "Not cool! That proves that the Supercomputer is dangerous and should be destroyed after we get Aelita out of there!"

"HOLD UP!" Danny shouted bringing the attention back to him, "So you guys are okay with this? With me being dead?"

"Why wouldn't we be?" Odd asked, "You're our friend and we already know you."

"I told you that they would accept you!" Aelita said with a smile while Danny felt a tear slide down his face but no one noticed it, "And it's great news that you could get a second chance at life!"

Danny didn't say anything for a while and they were worried, "Danny?" Yumi's asked in concern, "Are you okay?"

Now Danny looked up and they could see the tears flowing from his face, "Thank you." He said at being accepted and at the news that there was a chance for him to be normal again.

~In another location~

The silver haired man looked at the video feed of Phantom fighting the Lunch Lady, "Maybe I should approach this boy personally." He said as two rings of dark light surrounded him turning him into a blue skinned vampire with black hair pointing straight up in a V shape along with a white tunic and pants and a white cape showing red on the inside and his eyes turned blood red.

"It's time for the Phantom to meet Plasmius."

To Be Continued…

Wow this is one of my shortest chapters ever isn't it? Anyways I hope that I haven't made the characters to OOC in the reveal and I hope that you will keep on enjoying this story! VampireNote13 drew a picture of Danny in his Lyoko form and here's the website.

icallthefundanny. tumblr post/38583572068/kinda-fanart-for-code-phantom

Okay Review Time

Nickorin Fusionspark: Yup! I figured that it would work out well.

Jeanette9a: Well his Lyoko form is already drawn out but if you could draw him with the others in their Lyoko Forms it would be cool.

Here's the website for their Lyoko Forms.

coveofsolitude. wordpress 2011/11/02/what-is-code-lyoko/

And here's them in the real world.

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Had to space for it to stay on Fan Fiction. And as for Danny he still has the white hair and green eyes but he wears a blue t-shirt with an open zip up black jacket and brown cargo pants. His Phantom costume is the same except I added a mask that's just like the Spider-Man Noir Mask to hide his identity and he has a green machete as a weapon (courtesy of Skulker)

Thank you for offering!

Nightmaster000: No Vlad is a halfa that was why he's in a breed of his own but his ghost half is the rare breed as well which makes him extremely powerful in this story and Aelita won the poll and as for the villain how about either Joker or Luthor in about three or four chapters later?

Weirdo: Not for a while but he will eventually.

Yuki100o: Yup and I hope that this chapter was a good one even if it is short.

Princessbinas: … *Shudders*. That's just plain wrong… Maybe I'll have it show Skulker trying to strangle the Box Ghost for being annoying though.

Fantasy-Mania31: Thank you and I hope you'll continue to love this story!

Shugokage: I figured it would and I'll probably be adding more powers whenever I think of some.

Waffle192: Thank you and I'll try to have the next few chapters up as soon as possible!