Danny phantom what happened next

By ~PrennCooder

Cecelia and Valerie have new responsibilities which include keeping the lab safe from ghostly foes.

Chapter 6: Trackers In The Making

It was a lonely street that Garth Lloyd walked as he made his way to the government lab that he worked at. The air was beginning to get nippy and lifeless—a typical fall. Just barely in view was the gigantic laboratory—a ghost's worst nightmare. Garth was the only exception.

Garth had been working for the Guys in White for years and he had no reason to fear them because he knew that they were not capable of figuring out his secret. Just recently he had begun to get antsy because of Dr. Hazel and his breakthrough. He made sure of that.

Garth had to balance his job and his secret identity while also plotting the invention's destruction. How will he do it? He doesn't even know yet. He's so sure he can do it all by himself with no outside help. But this time everything's bigger than just him and his life.

And then there is that one girl Cecelia—never paying attention when he is trying to teach her something that would benefit her. And then she starts to bring her friend Valerie over to the lab too so that they can hang out together while waiting for their fathers to finish work.

Garth knew Valerie and Valerie knew him, but they stayed out of each other's' way. That is, until Cecelia and her father came along.

Garth entered the large white brick building and walked up the stairs into the hallway where the employee lockers were. He put on his lab coat and took his clipboard in his left arm and a pen in his hand as well.

And then he walked near the empty storage room where Cecelia had been practicing her martial arts for the past week. Garth looked in through the window.

There were Cecelia and Valerie kicking high. Garth could hear them shouting "One two! One two!" over and over. Garth had to admit to himself that he was proud of them for aiming for such physical prowess.

And then Garth walked to a desk. He looked around to make sure all of the other technicians were busy, and then he began to enter a series of letters and numbers. It soon registered on the screen that Garth had reached the mainframe of the building's computer network, which was off-limits to technicians.

Garth could have made it big in this sort of thing; it just wasn't his cup of tea. He needed a little more…bite.

"That should do it." Garth said to himself at a low volume no one could hear. The screen that showed the number of days that Garth was absent from work dropped from "twelve" to "four".

This pleased Garth.

He shut off the hacked network and slipped away from the computer. As he was walking away, he bumped into a dull technician.

"I need you to report to Dr. Hazel in his office right away." The man droned, not even making eye contact with Garth.

Garth immediately changed his course of action and took an elevator lift to Dr. Hazel's office. "Mr. Lloyd, welcome." Dr. Hazel said.

Garth looked around to see Cecelia, Valerie, Mr. Gray, Mr. Black, and Mr. White all gathered in the room along with Dr. Hazel around a projector screen.

Mr. Black looked at Garth. "Since you are Cecelia's overseer, I thought it fir that you should be here to see this."

"Mr. Hazel has merged one of our devices and a theory of his to create a hybrid technology—one that will allow us to track ghosts." Mr. White spoke. "Since myself and Mr. Black are the heads of Guys in White, we have decided that Cecelia and Valerie are the best for the job."

"What job?" Valerie asked.

"Tracking ghosts." Said the men in white in an eerie unison.

"How?" Damon Gray asked to anyone who could answer.

"I think it would be best if Hazel could explain this one." Mr. White said.

"Well, once a ghost's DNA is fed into this machine, it registers it permanently and can tell the rough distance that the ghost is from the machine. It can also determine which direction the ghost is in. for example, if a ghost was in the sky, the weapon would register this on its 3-dimensional indicator."

"That's genius, dad!" Cecelia said proudly.

"Now we're really getting somewhere!" Valerie smiled.

"And you two can track down that Danny Phantom pest at your school." Dr. Hazel explained as he pulled out two small dark grey metallic weapons.

"That's what I'm talkin' about!" Cecelia and Valerie said in unison. They each took one of the weapons.

"Excuse me—did you say Danny Phantom?" Garth asked. Everyone turned and stared at him.

"Yes I did. He's a well-known fiend at my daughters' school. And he often rudely interrupts Axion Lab's normal routines. I think it's about time that he and all other ghosts were justly taken care of." Dr. Hazel determined.

"What did you have in mind, dad?" Cecelia asked as he was helping her and Valerie to install the weapon into their suits.

"I was thinking maybe you could bring him to me—alive—and I could test out the Equator." Dr. Hazel explained.

"So that's what you're going to call it?" Valerie asked. "And then you're going to turn the Phantom's ghostly energy into electricity?"

"Precisely."

"What about all the other ghosts?" Damon Gray spoke up.

"Before you know it, Cecelia and Valerie will be able to catch ghosts tens of times more powerful than the pre-pubescent Phantom kid. And by then the world will be a few steps closer to being ghost-free." Dr. Hazel said.

Everybody in the room clapped except for Garth.

Lucky for him, nobody noticed. He didn't feel like clapping; he really did not want to. He actually felt like throwing up right now. Danny Phantom? Ghost tracking? After all this time would Garth's perfect plan finally come to its foil? And so close to what could have been its timely end?

Garth left the room and relieved a technician of the task of sorting letters—a tedious task—but one that would definitely give Garth a chance to think the next few steps of his life through. He did not believe Danny Phantom to be a fiend or a menace; but more of an unappreciated hero.

After Garth's shift was over, he went to his locker and put his lab coat and clipboard away. Cecelia appeared behind him. She had startled him, but he did not give a reaction.

"Why did I get the feeling that earlier today you did not want me hunting ghosts?"

"Because I did feel that way."

"Why?"

"It's too dangerous. If that Phantom kid is more powerful than you, the fight won't last very long." Garth's facades were always convincing.

"Look." Cecelia put her hand on her hip with attitude. "I've been given a job and I take it. I want nothing more than to please my father and rid the world of these…monsters. Now, is that really too much to ask for?"

Garth made no reply.

"Because I can guarantee you that I will not disappoint my father." Cecelia started walking away.

"Don't let him know."

"Huh?" She turned around.

"Don't let Danny Phantom know that you're tracking him."

"Thanks for the advice." She resumed her walking.

Cecelia walked over to where her best friend Valerie was getting ready to go home with her own father.

"Why are you in such a rush to leave?" Cecelia asked her casually.

"I want to test out this new weapon tonight. If a ghost comes into Axion Labs, I'll be ready."

"Could I come with you?" Cecelia asked. "I really don't have any plans."

"Dad?" Valerie wanted to get her father's opinion.

"Sure." Damon agreed.

Both girls smiled.

It was late at night in Axion Labs. All the workers had gone home for the day except for a few miscellaneous janitors here and there. Damon Gray was up in his office doing some late-night organization. Cecelia and Valerie sat on the floor of a large circular room near the main entrance.

"Wow this place sure is creepy after hours." Cecelia stated.

"Shh! You don't want the ghosts to hear you!" Valerie warned.

Cecelia stood up, irritated. "What? There are no ghosts here! In fact, I've never seen a ghost here! I'm beginning to think this place was never haunted in the first place!"

"Will ya sit down!" Valerie found it hard to whisper when trying to give Cecelia a tone.

They heard soft fighting noises from outside. It didn't sound human. There was moaning and wailing and clashing and screaming.

Valerie pulled Cecelia into the shadows.

"Are you ready?" Valerie whispered.

"Yes." They both suited up and turned on their tracking weapons.

Suddenly, a gigantic glass window shattered before their eyes. They had to refrain from gasping so as not to aware the ghosts of their presence. There on the floor lie Danny Phantom with his suit all torn up. He moaned in pain.

"Yes! I'm finally inside! Bless my sweet—TECHNOLOGY! Look at all of these electronic apparatuses!" A green ghost with a grey mullet and a cape flew around Axion Labs taking technology.

"Let's get Danny Phantom while he's down!" Valerie determined. But Cecelia held her back.

"Wait! What if he's actually trying to stop the bad guy? Why else would he have been all banged up?" Cecelia inquired.

"That ghost probably just used him to break the glass. But if you wanna go after him, then be my guest. I'm going to capture me a Phantom." Valerie marched right up in front of him and put some blue glowing handcuffs around him that she had sealed away in her back pocket.

Cecelia split and went over to the room where the green ghost was robbing the lab. Cecelia just stood there with her weapon aimed and ready to fire.

He turned around. "Stupid child! Did you really think you could defeat the great Technus with your inferior technology!"

Cecelia gasped as the ghost commanded a jumper cable to wrap around Cecelia's body and render her useless in the fight. "Help! Heeellp!" Was all Cecelia could scream out. She was choking.

Before she knew it, something was firing ectobeams and plasma beams at the green ghost who called himself Technus.

"Aah! You cannot defeat me either, ghost child!" Technus bellowed.

Cecelia was surprised to see what she saw—Valerie and Danny Phantom battling the foe together. And now Cecelia seemed not to be so afraid. Valerie seemed to be doing a pretty good job at holding off Technus, so Danny decided to free Cecelia.

"What are you doing?" Cecelia asked him as he phased her through the rampant electric cord.

"You're welcome." He said and immediately turned his attention to Technus.

"Thank…you?" Cecelia was still puzzled.

"Well don't just stand there!" Valerie yelled to her. "Let's take him down!" Valerie and Cecelia hit Technus with their most powerful weapons. But it was no use.

Technus hacked into the computer's core and downloaded energy and information and with every second he gained more power. "You cannot stop me!" he laughed maniacally. Technus fired a bean from the palm of his hand and it hit Valerie and knocked her out cold.

"No!" Cecelia cried. And then a blast hit her as well.

"Finally!" Danny said as he pulled his handy thermos from his belt.

"No! Child!" Technus wailed as the thermos sucked him in. Danny sealed the cap tight and then looked at the two sleeping girls.

"They'll be okay." He thought to himself. "I'll just have to wake them up." He said as he nudged both of them.

Valerie was the first to awaken. "What? What do you want with me, ghost?" and then she looked up at the ghost boy who was there. "Oh, it's you, Phantom. What did you do with the other ghost?"

"I…uh chased him away. He won't be bothering you anymore." Danny confessed.

"Then why are you still here?" She asked with a strange kindness to her voice.

"Danny?" Cecelia rubbed her eyes as she woke up.

Danny sighed. "Remember our deal? You free me so that I can save your friend and then I'll turn myself in to you."

"And to think you could have just flown away and we wouldn't have stopped you. You could have gone home." Valerie pointed out. She was still confused. Was this a trick?

Danny put his arms in the air in surrender. "Are you going to capture me or not?"

"Go." Cecelia said mercifully.

"What?" Valerie turned around and glared at Cecelia. "We'll never catch him again. And right now he's practically handing himself over to us."

"If it weren't for him, neither of us would be alive right now. So I think we owe it to him to at least give him a sporting chance before we start hunting him again." Cecelia pointed out.

Valerie crossed her arms and lowered her eyebrows. She did not look pleased at all. "Go." She commanded grimly.

Danny took the opportunity and phased through the wall and at a rapid pace, he flew across the midnight sky.

"Well…he did save us. Maybe he's not as bad as you think." Cecelia pointed out in her defense.

Valerie was still unamused. "He's still a ghost—a pest—and an apparition. He has no right to come into my father's lab!"

"I know, Val. But you should at least consider the possibility that he is not totally evil."

Valerie walked away and changed out of her suit and Cecelia followed her. "So are we cool? I'd really rather not lose the best friend I ever had over something stupid like this." Valerie still did not respond. "Come on, Val…" Cecelia pushed.

Valerie sighed and stopped in her tracks. "I don't know, Cecelia. Ghost hunting is a big deal to me. My teachers look at my grades and say I'm a slacker; that I'll never amount to anything. And I have the most hideous job in the entire high school."

"You're the Nasty Burger mascot."

"Yeah. And for the first time in my life, ghost hunting made me feel right. It's something I'm good at and it's also a way to fuel my anger. I dunno if you understand this, but succeeding at it is making up for failing the rest of my life."

"Wow."

"Yeah."

"Then I won't let you down." Cecelia determined.

"Thanks," Valerie smiled, "Best friend." And they shared a hug.

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