Disclaimer: I don't own anything related to Bleach or Danny Phantom.

Legend:

"Someone is talking."

'Someone is thinking.'

"A technique is being used."

Chapter Thirteen:

After the Box Ghost had retreated and Danny had retrieved his dad's present, Danny had gone back upstairs to rejoin the rest of the party goers before anyone noticed that he was gone. His downtrodden mode was slowly lifted as he watched his dad opening the gifts that people had got for him. With each new gift that was opened a chorus of "oohing" and "ahhing" followed. Danny saw that his dad had gotten some new orange hazmat suits, chocolate, and various gadgets and gizmos that Danny didn't know how to pronounce but had something to do with ghost hunting. Those trinkets did seem important to his father though, as his dad had said that they were what he needed for a "certain project"

Danny had felt really guilty when his dad had opened "his" gift and pulled him into a bear-hug, as he felt like he didn't deserve it. He promised himself right then, as he returned his dad's hug, that he would make it up to his father in any way that he could.

After a few more hours of partying, the party slowly began to wind down as people trickled out of the house and to their own homes. When all the guests were gone, even Sam and Tucker had left a while ago; Danny knew that it was time to clean up the after party mess. He helped Jazz clean up the mess in the living room while his dad talked his mom's ear off about a particular gadget he got from one of the guests. After a while Maddie took the gadget from his hand and replaced it with a broom, telling him to clean the mess in the kitchen. Which he did, with great reluctance. After an hour or two of cleaning the Fentons decided to forgo cooking a big dinner and just finished off the snacks that the guests had left.

After everyone had eaten their fill of snack foods, the family separated to do their own things. Maddie helped Jack put away his presents before they retreated to the lab, Jazz went up to her room to study her psychology books, and Danny went off to bed.

Despite how tired he was Danny was reluctant to go to sleep, as he was afraid of having any more nightmares like the one had the night before. That dragon-like monster in the black lake had scared the crap out of him and that mask in that white room. Well, he didn't want to think about that part of the nightmare. So, to avoid going to bed for a while longer he logged onto his computer to waste time playing games.

After thirty minutes of playing the online game Danny knew that he was fighting a losing battle. Despite his will to stay awake and avoid what was to come, Danny's exhaustion eventually overpowered his will. Like a tree fall in the forest, Danny felt his head fall onto the keyboard as he drifted off into sleep. The sudden jarring of the keyboard caused Danny to lose the game he had been playing, causing a huge "Game Over" to flash across the screen in bold, and tinting the room a vivid red light.

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(Unknown Location)

Danny opened his eyes to the gentle sound of waves lapping against the shoreline. Ever so slowly he lifted his head from the shallow water that it was submerged in and looked around at his surroundings.

Dark water surrounded him his he stared out at what appeared to be Lake Eerie, Amity Park's supposed "haunted" lake. All of a sudden, he was stricken by a deep thirst that he had not noticed until now. Leaning his head down slightly, Danny started to lap from the lakes surface before he noticed something off about his reflection.

Staring back at Danny was the mask that he saw in his dreams except now it was attached to a body. It seemed to be a bleached version of the dragon that had devoured him except he had blue markings that traversed his entire body. After a second of staring at the water Danny realized that he was staring at his reflection. Normally, if Danny was in his right mind, he would've freaked out but, right now a deep gnawing feeling filled him.

Hunger.

The only way Danny knew to get rid of the feeling in his stomach was to feed, he needed to find prey. So he tucked his wings in beside himself and dove into the dark waters of Lake Eerie. Once he was fully submerged he used his long tail to propel himself through the supposedly-haunted lake like a large crocodile.

After a while of only seeing the darkened water of Lake Eerie, Danny grew frustrated with having not found anything to eat. Gritting the teeth of the mask, he used his tail to propel himself faster through the water and closer to the surface. Once he drew closer to the surface of the lake Danny noticed some lights just beyond the surface of the water. He beat his tail faster to gain speed and, after a couple moments, breached the surface of the lake.

Dark-blue water danced around in the air when Danny had breached, foaming up upon impact with the surface of the lake. Danny himself did not follow the water as he had opened his wings as soon as he had left the lake and was now hovering above the surface, gently flapping his wings as he gazed upon the source of the lights he had seen.

Before him was Lake Eerie's docks, which, surprisingly still had a small assortment of boats docked there. However none of the boats appeared to be in use as all of the dock workers and the fisherman were at home for the rest of the night.

As Danny hovered slightly in mid-air he caught sight of something moving. When his amber eyes caught sight of what was moving his stomach began to growl. Danny saw two bright-green octopuses that were floating in the air, looking around the docks with their baleful red eyes. They would do for now.

Danny stopped flapping his wings as he silently glided over to the two octopuses, the only sound that he made was a slight whistle of air. Once he was above his unsuspecting prey Danny folded up his wings and dived at the ghostly pair, his mouth already wide open in anticipation of the kill. One of the octopuses managed to turn around in time to see him before he ripped into it, the hunger in his belly began to diminish with every bite that he took.

The other octopus released an angry shriek at the sight of its friend's death before it attacked him with all eight of its tentacles. The attack only annoyed Danny instead of hurting him. Angered at the creature's feeble attack, Danny clamped his jaws shut on the octopus' tentacles when it tried to attack him again. It shrieked again this time in pain as Danny violently shook his head from side to side, ripping off most of its tentacles. Danny knew that he shouldn't dawdle with this prey so he threw it into the air and devoured it whole as it descended to the ground.

However once Danny finished his first meal of the night he began to dry-heave on the docks. While those octopuses had filled him up somewhat they had tasted horrible; it was like eating something that was curdled and spicy at the same time!

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(United States of America—Illinois)

By the time he had recovered from eating those two disgusting octopuses, Danny had once again found himself in the pains of his never ending hunger. The problem was that, after thoroughly scouring the docks, Danny found that the docks didn't have any prey left. Seeing that he was wasting his time here, Danny left in a huff. He needed something to eat!

Danny had headed northward for a while before he came upon a small, quaint town that didn't smell of those two octopuses, like Amity Park had. His mouth watered at all of the delicious smells his nose picked up in the town. Deciding to go after the most delicious one Danny flew off into a park where he found a slightly transparent, middle-aged man that was sitting on a bench next to a vase of flowers and a picture of himself.

The man perked up slightly, as he seemed to know something was off, before he slowly turned his head around and spotted Danny standing in between the park's trees. His beady little eyes widened in horror at the sight before he screamed, rather shrilly, about a "monster" and began to flee in the opposite direction of Danny.

The chase was on and Danny couldn't have been happier.

Danny bounded after the man and soon began to slowly gain on him before the man turned on his heel and down a narrow alleyway just outside of the park's entrance. The soul's action infuriated Danny, he would NOT let his next meal escape! With a mighty leap and a few flaps of his wings Danny sprang into the air. As he glided through the air, Danny spotted the man rushing out of the other end of the alley. Danny had him now as he angled his body towards the fleeing man, letting gravity do the work for him.

Once he had caught the screaming man in his claws, Danny dug into his meal with relish. It was far better than those two octopuses, it reminded him of how chicken tasted.

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(Illinois—Amity Park)

It was twenty minutes after he had devoured that man, and some other transparent people like him, that Danny had detected a stronger scent in the air. Deciding that this new meal was to good to pass up Danny decided to followed it. The stench lead him out of the quaint little town he had been in and back to Amity Park.

Danny's noted that the smell grew more powerful as he flew into the outskirts of the town. Unfortunately the overwhelming stench of the town almost caused him to pull back, as the smell reminded him far too much of those octopuses he had eaten. However, he refused to be pushed away from his next meal, so he persevered and flew deeper into the town and soon spotting an odd-looking building.

At that moment, Danny got a whiff of the most delicious, intoxicating aroma that almost drove him to the edge of madness from the desire that it ignited in him. He spent a few moments like this until the smell drifted away, causing him to growl at the sudden loss. Oh well, he knew where the scent was coming from, and anything that good-smelling would be absolutely delicious!

Danny dove towards the house and roared, the sound seeming to echo throughout the sleeping town. It was only a few seconds later that Danny crashed through the front wall of the house, sending debris and dust everywhere. Blowing the dust away with his mighty wings Danny landed in the middle of the wreckage.

Although there was nobody around him, Danny could still smell people below him, and roared in annoyance. He then lunged forward as he ripped a piece of the flooring out with his mouth before spitting it to the side and then repeated his actions. It took a couple of moments until he broke through the floor and spotted the source of the smell, two skinny females and a chubby man. Finding the source of the smell Danny could not contain himself and roared in delight.

He lunged at the three.

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(Amity Park—Fenton Residence—Danny's Room)

Danny woke up in a cold sweat, his chest heaving as his eyes darted frantically around his room. After a few seconds his heart slowly calmed down and he slowly began to remember the dream he had just had. The memories of that terrible nightmare caused his eyes to widen in horror as bile rushed up in his throat.

Stumbling out of bed, Danny made a break for the bathroom as the nausea proved to much for him. He had barely made it there and, after flickering on the light switch, collapsed at the toilet as he began to heave. Everything he had eaten yesterday slowly began to work its way out his throat and into the toilet until there was nothing left.

Danny felt extremely horrified at what he had done in his dream; he had eaten people and attacked his parents! However, that wasn't what terrified him most about his dream. What terrified him most, what brought out the fears and insecurities within him that Skulker had awoken.

He had enjoyed it.

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(Russia—Saint Petersburg—Underground Laboratory)

Technus frowned as he waited impatiently for the door to his former lab to open. Ordinarily, he would've phased right through the door but, when he had been alive, he had installed a "shield" of sorts that prevented such things.

It was kind of ironic now that he had installed a shield that would prevent him from quickly accessing this laboratory. As he waited for the door to open Technus did some quick calculations in his head and supposed that he could redesign the shield to allow himself in and other spiritual beings out. Of course as soon as the thought came he discarded it, after all, after today he would no longer need his old lab.

Technus didn't have much time to ponder on any other thoughts as the solid steel door before him finally opened, allowing him entrance to his own lab. Nodding to himself, Technus floated into his laboratory, the aged lighting system only just providing a flicker of light in the darkness that shrouded his lab.

Nicolai sighed when he saw the depressing state that his lab was in. He could see that the majority of his machines were dark and did not start up, probably do to a dead generator or a electrical surge. Everything in the lab was covered by thick layers of dust and curtains of spider-webs, with a few vermin running from him as he flew closer to his machines.

Looking around or a bit longer Technus finally found what he was looking for; there, in the middle of the room, was a machine that still had some life in it. This machine was connected to two large glass tubes that were securely fasten to each side of it, were empty for the moment but that would change. Sitting by the control panel of the machine was a pair of two small golden pyramids that looked to be made of a complex patterns of cogs and wires, both looked out of place from every other piece of equipment in the lab.

Technus then floated up to the control panel of the machine and stared at the two small pyramids. After a couple moments of silence Technus picked up one of the clockwork pyramids and gently ran his hand over the side of it, clearing away the dust that had accumulated on it.

"My dear, dear Аnyа…" Technus said softly as tears began to well up in his eyes. "I'm so, so sorry… that I haven't been here to help you... I died before I could find a viable source of energy to power the machine for you and Marianna... Please..." He whispered, with tears escaping his eyes as he began to sob. "Please... forgive m-me!"

Technus stood that way for an unspecified amount of time before he finally wiped the tears off his face with the back of his glove. He then gently placed the pyramid that he had picked up back down in its former position before returning his attention to the machine. He then raised his hands to the machine and shouted a single phrase.

"Marche (Power On)!"

From Technus' outstretched hands came out a series of black, metal tentacles that rushed towards the machine. The tentacles then connected with the machine in various places before Technus poured as much of his ghostly power as he could into his technique. This in turn caused his machine to begin glowing a bright, vivid green color and vibrate slightly.

Then just when Technus thought his machine was finally going to work something short-circuited. Still connected to his machine via his tentacles, Technus didn't have time to move even try to disconnect himself before he was electrocuted by the violent backlash.

Nicolai screamed as thousands upon thousands of volts of pure electricity were poured into his body and lost control over his technique. This caused the tentacles to loosen from the machine, and a wave of his own spiritual energy violently threw him through the air. He soon hit his back against a nearby wall before he slid down, slightly dazed from the event that just happened.

Technus panted heavily as he gritted his teeth. Technus dared not move as moving any part of his body, even if it was involuntary, sent jolts of pain through him.

"Why—" Technus gritted his teeth in rage as he slammed his gloved hands on the tiled floor beneath him, ignoring the mass amount of pain it brought him. "WHY DIDN'T IT WORK!"

A minute later Technus forcibly pulled back his anger over the situation and set to healing himself with his spiritual energy. While this was happening, Technus thought over what had happened and, more importantly, the reasons why it had happened.

Technus had thought that his spiritual energy alone would've been enough to power his machine but it appeared he was mistaken. His spiritual energy was that of a Ghost, something that Anya and Marianna's current bodies rejected. It was because of this that led to his failure.

If he was to succeed, he would need another energy source similar to Anya and Marianna's own, so that the energies would be able to synchronize. He would also need the purifying powers of a Shinigami to stabilize the procedure.

'Wait…' Technus thought as he remembered a specific person that had spiritual energy that, hypothetically, could fulfill both requirements. 'That boy…' A brief image of a white-haired boy in white clothes passed through his mind. 'Danny Fenton.'

A wide smile appeared on Technus' face before he slowly got up from his position on the ground. Floating off to one of the walls of his lab Technus pulled one of the many levers that adorned it. A slight humming sound filled the air as a green portal formed beneath his precious machine, swallowing it, the glass containers, and the two the pyramids whole. Once his machine was fully in the portal Technus flipped the switch again, closing the portal for now.

Then, after he made sure that he had everything that he needed, Technus spun around and pressed a bright red button near the exit of his lab. As he flew out of the lab a vivid red light filled every corner of the room and alarms began to blare.

'Unlike other Arrancar, Danny Fenton doesn't know the full capability of his powers yet; he hasn't even used his Resurrección in battle yet. I can easily capture him the way he is now, though I will have to make sure not to get him angry…' Technus thought as his lab behind him started exploded in flashes of light and fire.

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(Amity Park—Casper High—Room 203)

From his seat in the back of his Creative Writing class, Tucker Foley was currently keeping a watchful eye on Danny. Ever since their battle with Skulker, Danny had seemed to fold in on himself from the outside world. Sam had filled him in on the details of what happened when Skulker knocked him out. Needless to say Tucker was worried for his friend, since it seemed that Skulker's words affected him more than they originally thought.

Both he and Sam were worried for Danny's health; he looked like he wasn't getting enough sleep and he would barely eat anything anymore. At first they thought he was spending too much time chasing down ghosts instead of taking care of himself. This belief was dashed this morning when Sidney had spoken to them before school, telling them that Danny hadn't seen any Ghosts, besides himself, since the small incident with the Box Ghost at his father's birthday.

While this normally would've relieved them, now it only left them in confusion on why Danny as acting in this matter. The very instant that they met up with Danny that morning Sam and Tucker resolved to keep an eye out on him, just in case.

As the day progressed, Sam and Tucker continued to watch their friend and what they saw caused their worry to grow more and more. Danny appeared to be avoiding them as much as he possibly could. He never sat by them in class, and he rushed away when class was odd behavior only caused his friends to wonder what could be going on.

Tucker and Danny were now in their shared Creative Writing class, though Danny stayed true to his avoidance of his friends and choose to sit as far away from Tucker as humanly possible. This action had hurt Tucker personally, as he and Danny had always sat together.

Even their teacher for the class, Mr. Summers, seemed to have realize Danny's odd behavior at the beginning of class too if the raised eyebrow had been any indication. While he said nothing about what he saw, Mr. Summers made a note to constantly look over in Danny's direction who looked as if he was fighting to stay awake.

"Mr. Fenton."

Well, Mr. Summers hadn't said anything until now. But Tucker supposed that it had only been a matter of time before this happened; everyone in the room knew that Danny hadn't been paying attention. Danny's head snapped up from its former position in his arms before he looked around hurriedly, and cringed when he saw that Mr. Summers was standing in front of his desk. "… Yes, Mr. Summers?"

"Are you feeling alright, Mr. Fenton?" Mr. Summers asked with a concerned expression on his face, leaning closer towards Danny. "You haven't been paying attention for most of the class and you seem to be a tad sick. Maybe you should go see the nurse, hm?"

"I'm okay, Mr. Summers…" Danny protested wearily.

Mr. Summers' expression didn't change at Danny's denial, "No, you're not fine, Mr. Fenton. Now, I'll write you up a pass to the Nurse's Office and you'll report down there at once."

"But Mr. Sum—!" Danny began.

"There will be no 'buts' about it, Mr. Fenton." Mr. Summers interrupted as he quickly scribbled on a piece of paper before he handed it to Danny. "Now, get your things and go!"

Danny stared at the slip of paper for a moment before he sighed and did as he was told. After he gathered his things and stuffed them into his backpack, he got up before he made his way out of Mr. Summers' classroom and into the hallway.

After a couple minutes, Danny reached the Nurse's Office, which was right next to the attendance office, and went inside. He showed the school nurse, a young woman named Ms. Grey, his slip of paper before he sat down on the examination table.

Ms. Grey asked what the problem was and Danny reluctantly told her that he had been having a lot of nightmares recently. He apparently didn't need to say any more after that as Ms. Grey patted his shoulder and directed him to the Counselor's Office.

Knowing that resisting was practically pointless, as Ms. Grey was already calling Ms. Spectra to inform her that he was coming, Danny began his trek towards the Counselor's Office. After a few minutes of trudging through the empty hallways with nothing but his thoughts Danny eventually reached Spectra's office. Danny stood in front of the door for a few minutes, mentally debating whether or not he should really go through with it, before he knocked on the door. A few seconds later the door was opened by Ms. Penelope Spectra.

Ms. Spectra was a fair-skinned woman with short red hair that ended at the back of her neck, and emerald-colored eyes. She was wearing a white blouse, a long red skirt, and red slippers. She also had a small covering of blush on her cheeks but, besides that, she didn't wear any makeup.

"Come in, Mr. Fenton!" Penelope Spectra welcomed him in with a small grin on her face. Once Danny was all the way inside Spectra shooed him over to one of the two available seats that sat in front of her desk.

Ms. Spectra's office had dark-blue carpeting with slightly off-white walls and a medium-sized window that showed Casper High's parking lot. The office also contained an old hardwood desk with a computer on it, three filing cabinets, and an old bookcase that seemed to be filled with a menagerie of books.

Ms. Spectra closed the door behind her as she walked over to her desk. Once she reached her desk she sat down in the padded leather chair behind it and folded her hands in front of herself. "Now, Mr. Fenton, is there anything that you want to talk about?"

"Not really…" Danny tried to deny as he looked away from Ms. Spectra. His eyes continuously roamed around the office but never landing on Spectra herself. "I don't think I need to be here either… I'm fine.", Ms. Spectra hummed for a moment, obviously not believing a word that he had just said. She then picked up a manila file that was lying on her desk and opened it slightly, unknowingly allowing Danny to see the "Fenton, Danny" tab on the side of it.

"In the past few months, you have been banned from holding fragile school property, started a food fight in the school cafeteria, and have been assigned two weeks' worth of detention." Ms. Spectra stated as she read Danny's file. "Recently, according to your teachers, you haven't been turning in your homework on-time and have been doing "average" on your recent exams."

Danny fidgeted in his seat and didn't make eye contact, "Okay…" He said with a sigh and then he reluctantly admitted the truth. "I may have some… issues."

"And what are these 'issues', Mr. Fenton?" Ms. Spectra asked as she placed Danny's folder on her desk again and turned her attentive gaze onto Danny.

"Uh… Well, I guess that I'm falling a bit behind because I sometimes can't understand what the teacher is talking about." Danny lied. "It doesn't help that Dash is always bullying me and my friends, stealing our homework, stuffing us into lockers, taking our clothes from the boy's locker room…"

Ms. Spectra frowned at Danny's admittance at being bullied, "While I appreciate you informing me about Mr. Baxter's behavior, and I will see that it is corrected, those weren't the issues that I wanted us to talk about."

Danny was quiet for a minute or two while he mentally debated weather or not he should tell her about the nightmares. While he knew that it was better to talk about what had been happening, he also knew that he couldn't reveal what he and his friends had stumbled into since the lab accident. He didn't know how someone would react if he told them; would they call him insane? A monster?

"Recently…" Danny murmured after a few more moments of tense silence. "I… I have been having some nightmares."

A concerned expression appeared on Spectra's face as she leaned closer to her desk, an imploring look in her eyes as she stared at Danny, "What kind of nightmares have you been having, Mr. Fenton?"

"… I have been having nightmares… it started out as something terrible happening to me… and then me myself doing them…" Danny answered hesitantly. "And the worst part of it was…" his fists clenched in his lap. "I liked it."

"Could you elaborate, Mr. Fenton?" Ms. Spectra asked seriously.

"Well… when I'm the one doing the terrible things, I feel really heavy and slow and can't think like I usually do… like a… like some sort of beast." Danny shook his head as memories from his nightmares resurfaced, futilely trying to get them to just go away. "And… when I do them, I feel nothing but… satisfaction…"

Ms. Spectra frowned in concern at what she had just been told, "Is there anything that could have caused these nightmares to start happening?"

"Um…" Danny's eyebrows knitted together as he thought about what he would tell Ms. Spectra. He guessed that the nightmares had started after his battle with Skulker ut he really couldn't tell her about that, at least not in full detail. "I guess… they started happening after I got into a fight with somebody… and he called me a monster."

"Why were you called a 'monster'?" Ms. Spectra asked with a severe frown on her face.

"I was walking home after a Karate lesson with Sam and Tucker… and somebody tried to rob us." Danny lied convincingly. "When Sam and Tucker tried to help, the guy… he tried to stab… Sam with a knife… I saw red and lost control and… and all I wanted to was hurt the bastard!"

Ms. Spectra then stood from her desk and walked around her desk so that she could lay a calming hand on Danny's own, "Calm down, Mr. Fenton… I admit that while your reaction sounds more violent than I would like, it's… understandable that you would've gotten so angry."

"What are you talking about?" Danny exclaimed with a mixture of confusion and anger present in his voice. "How can you say that it's 'understandable; I—"

"Mr. Fenton… Danny, it is only Human nature to feel anger towards somebody that has hurt someone close to us. And while you might have been overzealous in your efforts to protect your friends, you didn't attack him for no reason. You attacked to protect your friends."

"But...but since then, I've been having those nightmares… where I h-hurt people. I-It's like I have no control over my body… and it scares me so much! I wake up, s-sweaty and breathless, and I feel so disgusted by what I did!" Danny admitted.

"It's alright, Danny." Ms. Spectra reassured. "It is because you feel this way after your nightmares that prove you aren't a monster. Would a monster feel disgust over his actions? Would it feel guilt over what it did?"

"No…" Danny mumbled in reply.

Ms. Spectra nodded at Danny's agreement, "You're right; a monster wouldn't feel any kind of guilt or remorse for what it had done. And by showing these emotions, you have shown that you are not a monster." Then, after a couple of moments, she said. "I suggest that we schedule at least a few meetings between us, two times a week, until you can get over this."

"Alright, I guess…" Danny sighed, before looking up at Ms. Spectra. "Thanks…"

"You're welcome, Mr. Fenton. Now, off to class with you!" Ms. Spectra responded happily, dismissing Danny with a wave of her hand.

Danny nodded once before he got up from his chair, picked up his backpack, and left the room to go to his next class; his Creative Writing class was already over so he started making his way to his History class.

Once Ms. Spectra was sure that she couldn't detect Danny's Reiatsu any longer, she allowed a haughty smirk to appear on her face, twisting her beautiful features. She then breathed out a fine mist, which caused the previously unseen wisps of emotions that were in the room to come into view. Then she breathed in, sucking the emotions and the mist inside of herself.

"Ahh…" Ms. Spectra said after a moment before she opened her eyes and, instead of them being green, they were a dark-red color. "I do so enjoy teen misery…"

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(Illinois—Amity Park—Axion Labs.)

It was an average day for the employees at Axion Labs; people were coming into work and the guards were preparing for their patrols or already on them. Things ran smoothly throughout most of the day until, sometime after five o'clock, a sleek jet materialized within a sonic boom.

The windows closest to the plane shattered and all of the nearby Humans—guards mostly—fell to their knees and clutched their now-bleeding ears with their hands.

Alarms began to blare from the broken glass, summoning more guards to the front entrance of Axion Labs, as a green-skinned, white person phased through the plane and floated ten feet above the ground.

"Freeze!"

Technus scowled as he looked down at the Humans that were barring his path into "his" new base of operations. If they had just stood aside then he wouldn't have had to battle them, something that he wasn't in the mood for.

"I told you to freeze!" One of the guards shouted out, shakily aiming his gun at Technus' hovering form.

"I'd rather not." Technus drawled before he fired a few blasts of pure ectoplasm at the guards, causing them to shout in alarm before scattering like ants.

Technus yawned as he formed a basic shield against the guard's bullets, and mentally scoffed at their efforts. What could mere bullets do against a being that could simply phase through them or block them?

"I tire of this game…" Technus said as he raised both of his hands "Le Piratage Vert (Green Piracy)!"

A wave of pure-green ghost energy spread from Technus' hands as he clapped them together in front of his face. The wave then began to spread all over the makeshift battlefield and entered any piece of circuitry that they came across. Shouts of alarm soon followed as golems of computers and swarms of handheld devices came to life and began to attack the guards.

"I'll let you deal with my little "pets"..." Technus said to the guards as he left the battlefield and floated towards the entrance of Axion Labs. He effortlessly phased through the reinforced doorway and went effortlessly made his way through the security systems and began to look around looked around. He grinned at the state of the art equipment that he saw. "This place will be perfect for my plans..."

Hearing the Humans outside scream caused Technus' grin to widen before he floated down and towards the core of the laboratory. He needed to secure "his" laboratory against the Humans, as he would not tolerate any of them defiling it with their presence.

"Hey! What—?" A bald man in a white lab coat shouted as he caught sight of Technus as he phased through the wall, his face white as a sheet. "What are you!"

Technus' face split into a sinister grin at seeing the man's fear, "I am Technus, Master of all Science and Technology! Now, get out of MY laboratory! Corrompre le Virus (Corrupting virus)!"

Thousands of razor-thin wires shot out from the edges of Technus' own lab-coat before they flew towards the bald researcher, who was sitting in a chair right in front of the main computer for the whole facility. The bald man stumbled over himself as he tried to get away but soon found out that he wasn't the intended target of those wires; the computer was.

Not even a second after reaching the startling realization that the main computer turned black and green, circuit-like markings that began to spread out and cover the room. Everything that the circuits touched transformed, becoming more compact and shiny, as if complying with Technus' will.

"Now!" The bald researcher looked up and cowered when he saw that Technus was floating directly above him. "You, Human, have no purpose in my laboratory!"

"HAHAHAHA HAHAHA!" Technus' mad cackle rang through the entire facility through the intercoms as every Human still within it cowered.

Techniques:

1. Marche (Power On): This technique allows Technus to create metallic tentacles that attach themselves on any piece of technology. Through them, he can channel his Ghostly Reiatsu, which is turned into electricity, into the machine to power or charge it.

2. Le piratage Vert (Green piracy): This is a technique that allows Technus to bring any nearby machinery to life by releasing a wave of Reiatsu.

3. Corrompre le virus (Corrupting virus): This is a technique that summons thousands of wires that act quite like a virus—corrupting any type of metal or machinery they touch—bending the environment around to Technus' will.