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-Obi
Chapter 10
It was seven AM in the morning on a Saturday, and Danny and David were in the lab preparing the Specter Speeder.
"Boomerang?" Danny asked.
"Check," came the reply from David.
"Ghost Gauntlets?"
"Check."
"Fenton Thermos?"
"Check."
Okay, I think we're good to go." They both climbed into the Speeder, Danny at the drivers seat, and put on their seatbelts. Danny started the engines as a secret tunnel opened up. He hit the gas, and they were off. Unbeknownst to them, Daniel was hiding under a cabinet, staring in longing at the two preparing to go. When at last they took off, he got up with a sigh and went upstairs.
"So, what's the plan?" David asked.
"Simple, really. We need to tear the ghost from out of him. That's where the gauntlets come in. It's the easiest way. We don't need another rogue halfa running around. After he's separated, we should probably send the human back to jail and dissect the ghost into nothing."
"What!" David yelled. He was shocked that that was what his father was planning. After everything Danny had gone through with his parents and convincing them it was wrong, here he was talking about doing it himself!
"I know, I know. But the fact is he's too dangerous. If we set the ghost half loose in the ghost zone, he'll just fight his way back into the human world and reconnect with his human half. Our only choice, no matter how much I dread it, is to dissect it." Danny was quiet for a few minutes, thinking over this decision. He finally realized he couldn't dwell on it too much at the moment, right now they had a halfa to catch.
"Okay, go ahead and throw it," Danny said to his son, referring to the Booomerang.
"Okay." He flipped a switch to open the front hatch, than grabbed the Booomerang. "Find the escaped prisoner halfa," he said as he gave it a throw. He sat back down as Danny followed it to the ghost. They closely watched every twist and turn it would take.
"So, is there anything we know about him?" David asked.
"Not much, no. Just that he was a clinically insane thief who was the subject of their experiment. And that he escaped, and he might be more ghost than human."
David nodded, taking in the facts. "Did you say clinically insane?"
"Yeah. He's a nut. I have no idea why the government thought it was a good idea to give a madman ghost powers, but they did."
"Well this should be fun." David slumped into his seat, and fell asleep while waiting for them to get wherever it was they were going.
Danny kept flying for thirty more minutes or so. Everything looked oddly familiar, but he couldn't put his finger on it. He saw a river, trees, and other things it seemed he had seen before. He kept following it, until he spotted a building up ahead. The device he was following made an indication it was close, and he sped up. He finally pulled up to the building, and his jaw dropped. He just stared at it. What were the odds? He nudged David to wake him up.
"We're here."
David looked up at the building in front of them. It was very large, but also looked run down. An old abandoned mansion. They were hovering on a circular drive infront of the house.
"Yeah, but where are we?" he asked.
"Vlad's mansion."
David's eyes popped open at the name. "You mean this is Vlad Master's old house? THE Vlad Masters????" he asked excitedly.
Danny nodded his head.
"This is it. Okay, you know what to do?"
"Yeah." He held up the Fenton Thermos and the Ghost Gauntlets. "I've got it."
They both got out of the speeder and phased themselves into the building. Danny pulled out a ghost tracker. It looked very old, and it was, really. It was one of Jack Fenton's earliest inventions. Danny had it focused on the halfa at hand,
"Okay, it looks like he might be in the basement."
"Got it." David turned intangible and dove for the floor.
"No, wait!" Danny started as he saw his son dive. After he watched him crash face first into the floor, he flinched. "In his later years Vlad laced the walls of his lab with the key elements of a ghost shield. to keep ghosts from finding it."
"Okay, so how do we get in?" David asked as he rubbed his head.
"There's a secret entrance in his private study. Follow me."
David followed his Father as he ran down long, twisting hallways and finally into a study. The walls were lined with old books, and in the center was a fireplace.
"Where is it?" David asked.
In response, Danny walked over to a golden football on the right side of the mantle in the middle of the room. He grabbed it and pulled down, and the whole thing moved aside to reveal a staircase.
"Oh."
They made their way down the dark staircase, and found at the end of it a large laboratory. The walls were lined with shelves and at the end was a broken down ghost portal. Thay looked all around for him.
"I don't see him. Maybe the device is wrong?" David asked.
"Maybe." Danny turned around to go back to the stairs when he was attacked. Within seconds he found himself on the floor, under the escaped prisoner. His eyes were green and his hair white, and he was wearing a completely black jumpsuit. Danny quickly transformed and starting fighting back. David was frozen for a few seconds, until he snapped back into reality and took action.
"I'm going ghost!" he yelled. Two very familiar light blue rings appeared around him, and comtinued their usual path. In their wake they left a very different looking person. David had more of a ghostly complextion. While fangs were nowhere to be found, his skin was a light shade of blue, and his ears were pointed. Now, when he had first transformed, he was in dire need of a haircut. Unbeknownst to them, his long, messy hair had stuck. In result, his ghost half had hair that covered half his face. His suit was almost exactly the same as his father's, except he had a beltbuckle on his. He was also a little more muscular. Not overly so, but about right.
He jumped right onto the halfa attacking his father. Danny rolled out as David began pelting him with ghost rays that were unavoidable. In response, the crazed prisoner threw him off and came back with a large blast of his own. Danny began blasting at his back, but was surprised when the prisoner made a clone of himself and sent it after Danny. David launched a frontal attack, but only met air, as the other half ghost had side stepped and now had him by the foot. He spun David around before throwing him into an old rusty machine of some sort. Danny covered his hands in hard ectoplasm, something he had learned to do when he was about twenty-three, and started bashing into the clone he was facing. After a few good hits, the clone dissipated back into the original.
"Stop! Leave me alone!" came the cries of the prisoner in an otherworldly voice. In a flash his eyes turned purple again for a split second, till they blazed green once again. "Or I'll have to hurt you," came a voice that sounded even more demented and insane.
"David, we go for it now!" Danny shouted. David ran for and snatched up the gauntlets. He looked at his father, silently asking if he should do it or give the gloves to his father. Danny nodded his head to say that David should do it, and so he was off. The green claws unsheathed, he ran full speed at the ghost. He lunged right at him, and he tore right through a clone. It looked at it's wound, oozing a green sline, and then looked back at the surprised duo with a maniacal laugh.
"You'll never find me, never!" yelled the clone as he dissipated into the air. Danny and David stood there dumbfounded, just staring at the empty space where the clone had just been.
"What now?" David asked.
"We go home."