Alright, so this is Hurt. It's the next part of the 101 Oneshots. I hope it makes up for the previous chapters (lengths).
My Ghost Detector went off, and I transformed into my new, upgraded suit. I looked at it, and seen that there were many ghosts in the park. Activating my hover board, I flew off to the park. Looking around I seen a ghost who looked like a Sheriff from the 50s, a bunch of ghosts that looked like police, and the last ghost caught my eye: Phantom, the ghost who ruined my life.
At a better look, I seen all the ghosts were targeting him. Phantom looked pretty beat up, with his jumpsuit torn and bleeding ectoplasm. Maybe I should stop the other ghosts first, and then capture Phantom. It would be easy considering how beat up he was. I heard the ghost who looked like a sheriff say to Phantom, "Stop fighting punk. You are going to serve your thousand years, whether you like it or not."
"You'll never get away with this Walker. You're breaking your own rules, and did you ever make saying please a rule like I told you?" I guess Walker was his name. Wasn't that the ghost Phantom always blamed for when he attacked the mayor? And why did Phantom have to serve a thousand years?
No matter, he's still the ghost who ruined my life. And I'm not gonna let him get captured by other ghosts, because
I'm the one who's gonna catch him. I thought to myself, before I charged in there and blasted the sheriff. Phantom looked at me surprised and whispered, "Valerie?" Then he groaned in pain. Wait. Can ghosts feel pain, or is this just an act? "Can't beat them... don't want to destroy most of town." He said, coughing. If this was just an act, Phantom was a great actor.
Walker looked at me and then his guards. He then pointed to me. "Get her and the halfa punk too!" He yelled, as his guards came towards me and Phantom. Halfa? Wasn't that what Danielle and Vlad were? Phantom's a halfa too? Then that wasn't an act? I've been trying to destroy a human? No time to solve this, I just have to fight them off, and then I can question him.
I blasted the goons away from me, before flying towards Phantom and blasting them away from him. He looked at me surprised. "You're helping me?" He asked.
"For now." I answered, blasting the guards away again.
He looked surprised, and then he came out of his shock. "I should be able to fight in a couple minutes. Just try to hold them off, and get them in the direction where there are the least things to destroy." He said, trying to get up.
"I said get the punks!" Walker yelled, enraged. His goons charged at us again, as I fired my many ectoguns. Some fell down, defeated, while some others were left standing. I smiled, throwing more of the blasts at them. Walker looked in shock, and then he yelled again, "Are you deaf!" I looked towards Phantom who was now able to stand.
The goons charged at us, and I blasted them again. Now only about 20 were left standing. "Nice job." Phantom commented.
"Thanks." I replied as I blasted some more. "Are you able to fight?" I asked, looking at him.
"Probably." He put up an ecto-shield in front of us, to deflect some blasts from the guards. "I guess I am." He reached back; probably to grab that Thermos he always carried around. Phantom gasped in surprise, before mumbling to himself. "Stupid. I forgot it at home." Phantom has a home? Oh duh, he's a halfa. Of course he has a home. Just who is he though?
I blasted some more guards with my biggest ectogun, and the only one left standing was Walker. He looked around at his unconscious guards. "Idiots!" He yelled. "I guess I have to deal with them myself!" He charged at us, and Phantom jumped in front of me.
Phantom looked like he was about to form an ecto-shield, but it looked like something else. "Huh?" He said, surprised. I guessed it was a new power of his or something. Walker gasped in surprise, but he didn't stop in time. He went through it, but didn't come out the other side, where we were. "Sweet! I wondered when I would learn this!"
"What was that?" I asked him. "And how'd you know about it before you learned it?"
"I made a Ghost Portal. And it's a long story. But I made a Ghost Portal! SWEET!" He yelled, happily as he spun in the air celebrating. "But we should get out of here before the Fenton's show up." The Fenton GAV showed up not even a second later.
"Too late." I told him. "Now you should close that thing."
"Of course. I shouldn't have even said that." Phantom replied as Maddie and Jack Fenton came out. They looked at all the ghosts around, and then spotted me and Phantom.
"I have a plan." I whispered to him. "Pretend that I'm chasing you, and we'll take it to a place they can't go."
"Like where? And why are you helping me now that Walker's gone?" He whispered back, looking terrified. There are his emotions again. That only proves that he's half-human even more.
"Let's save questions for later. And how about the sky?" I told him, and he eagerly nodded. A sent him a questioning glance. I'll ask him why he wants to go to sky so bad then.
"Phantom." I heard Maddie say. She charged up her Fenton Bazooka to fire at Phantom. "Go back to the Ghost Zone!" She then noticed the portal. "Wait is that a portal?"
Jack nodded, as he tried to fire a blast at Phantom. Like I said, he tried too. It missed, and hit a random building.
"I knew I forgot to close this thing. Just how do I do it?" Phantom asked, before I pulled out a Thermos that I got from Vlad when I first got me suit.
I flew a bit over Phantom, and sent him a death glare. Of course it was fake, but the Fentons didn't know that. I aimed it at Phantom, and apparently he thought it was real too. Then I made it 'slip' out of my hands. "Whoops." I said, as Phantom caught it.
Finally he caught on, and used the Thermos on the portal and it closed. "That'll have to do until I learn how to close it." He sucked up some of the goons, and watched as the Fentons caught some of the others.
I heard them talking to each other. "Does that mean Phantom can make portals?" I heard Maddie say to Jack.
"I guess. It explains why he's able to get in and out of the Ghost Zone so much and to the real world." Jack answered. "And can I have a cookie?" Maddie answered by giving him a cookie.
I turned my attention back to Phantom, who was taking off to the sky, which was the first part. "Get back here Ghost!" I yelled, even though it was fake. I chased off after him at a high speed. We went fast enough so that the GAV couldn't catch up. They'd go after the goons first anyways.
Once we got far enough away, we landed in the woods. "Now, I'd like to ask you some questions Phantom."
"With the gun or without the gun?" He asked, looking nervous.
"Without." He looked relieved at that idea. "Who was that ghost? And why did he want to arrest you?" I asked, curiously.
"That was Walker. He wanted to arrest me because I had 'human contraband' in the Ghost Zone, which he so made up on the spot." He said, before continuing. "Later, I kind of freed all the ghosts in his prison because I have things in the human realm that need to be done. He would have had me if I didn't have help from some friends."
He freed all the ghosts in a prison? That's so wrong! But he did have a good reason. "Is there anything more? And how long did was your sentence?" I asked.
"1,000 years." He said plainly. What! That was crazy! "And yes, there's more. I also freed his star prisoner, Wulf who can tear holes through dimensions. From what I translated, he told me that Walker had planned to free him if he helped catch me. Wulf was scared, so he agreed. Later, I became friends with Wulf and a friend took the collar that shocked him off."
He gave me some time to catch up. "So this is around the time you kidnapped the mayor?" I said, glaring at him. He didn't know that I knew that he was a halfa. If I could gain his trust, he'd tell me later.
"I didn't do that!" He protested, saying what he always said. "At that time, Walker and his goons had overshadowed almost everyone in town. He wanted me to be feared in the human realm, and wanted in the Ghost Zone. So, he blamed the whole mess on me. That's when I came. I thought the Fentons were overshadowed so I blasted the ground close to them to get the ghosts out harmlessly."
"But, they weren't overshadowed and that got Walker's lie to become more realistic." I said, actually listening for once. If someone told me a month ago I would actually be listening to Phantom with no weapons out I would have thrown them to the crazy-center. I remember after I found out Vlad was a halfa, Danielle came back and I asked her about her cousin. She told me what Phantom told her, and these were pretty much the same. When I asked her about how Vlad became a halfa, she flew off dramatically. I smiled, remembering the moment.
"Exactly. When everyone was out, he put me in a headlock and dragged me out there, putting on an act. Just look at the picture! He was smiling, and I was trying to get away. Me and Wulf then fought him, and they both went back to the Ghost Zone." He answered, smiling. He was probably happy that I was listening to him for once.
"And what about the stealing?" I asked.
"There was a crazy clown with a staff that controlled ghosts. He made me and those others, besides Lydia who wanted to actually do it, do bad things. A friend snapped me out of it, and the staff got destroyed. Freakshow was arrested later after some kids caught him." He said that, pausing at the word kids. What was he trying to hide about his friends?
"Yeah, I saw the arrest in the newspaper. Danny Fenton, Sam Manson, and Tucker Foley caught that freaky clown." I said, remembering that day. Phantom probably was able to trust me by now.
"Yeah, they caught him. I did some invisible help to get that lunatic in prison. He tried to kill one of my friends, and that's what snapped me out of it." He said, before covering his mouth.
"Your friends are human, aren't they?" I asked him, with hands on my hips. He looked really nervous that I caught him. Yeah, they were human.
"Uh, you see, um..." He began to stutter. "My one friend would kill me- again- if I told you. She's a bit overprotective..." He covered his mouth and whispered to himself, "Great answer. Valerie will know now."
Then I realized. He was friends with Danny, Sam, and Tucker! Or was he one of them... Danny is too, well Danny, to be Phantom, Tucker may joke around a lot, but they aren't usually that good, while Sam is a girl. Halfas don't switch genders, and I knew that from the other two I knew: Vlad and Danielle.
So, I decided to act like I didn't know that bit of information. I remembered everything that happened before, so I asked that. "What was with you destroying my old suit? It would have killed me!" I yelled.
He flinched. It's good to play the bad cop, even when there is no good cop. "I knew you weren't in the suit. Technus, a technology ghost had it taken over."
"Alright then, but why did you expose me to my Dad and take the ecto-suit?" I asked with a demanding tone in my voice. Man I was good at acting.
"For one, you would have died if you went in there. You were already injured. And I took the suit to fight the Ghost King, and I beat him. But, I passed out and when I woke up, the suit was gone." He said.
"Alright then. My last question is, are you like Danielle and Vlad?" I asked him. He looked surprised, then really nervous. It looks like I'm right. "That ghost, Walker, called you a halfa."
"How do you know what a halfa is? And which Vlad?" He said nervously. My guess is that Phantom sucks at lying, yet he still maintained his species from us this whole time.
"Both Plasmius and Masters. I know they're the same person. As for the halfa part, I was thinking about what Danielle and Vlad were and came up with the word 'halfa'." I said, and he looked relieved about the Vlad part.
"Oh..." He replied.
"You still haven't answered my question Phantom." I said, plainly. I want to know who he is, so I know if he's actually evil or not!
"Uh... no?" He answered nervously. I sent him a look that meant, 'Seriously?' He sighed, before answering. "I... I am. I admit it. I'm a halfa." He had a look of defeat. "Or as some ghosts put it: 'A creepy little boy, with creepy little powers.' "He said that last part mockingly, probably mocking that one ghost. But I was right! He is a halfa!
"I knew it!" I yelled out, before covering my mouth. He gasped, before looking at me.
"You knew? For how long?" He said, surprised.
"Ever since Walker called you a halfa. But, who's your human half?" I asked. It was the question that was bugging me.
"I... I can't say..." He muttered.
"Just say it." I replied, but he didn't answer. "Alright, so if Danielle's related to you, her human half will look kinda like yours." I just hit the nail. Phantom was sweating like he was in the desert. I thought about it. Who did Danielle look like? I gasped. Danielle's human form had Danny Fenton's baby blue eyes and pitch black hair.
Danny Phantom. Danny Fenton. Phantom. Fenton. Phantom was Fenton. I was in shock. The boy I had loved, the boy I had broken up with to protect him, was the very one I was trying to destroy and protect himself from! How could I have been so blind?
It was so obvious in retrospect, that it was ignored. If you took away the color, you'd have the same hair. The same voice. The same face shape. The same person.
Everyone in this town is so blind! I was so blind because I ignored it. Hatred, rage, and revenge were all that I ever thought about. But, not anymore. I can't let anger rule me like it has been. I won't let it.
So, I whispered one word. "Transform." It was more like a plead than a demand. He looked at me for a moment, then two rings formed around his waist. They split up and down. I began to see the start of a familiar t-shirt, and jeans. They split further, until where Danny Phantom once stood, Danny Fenton stood. I was right. But I was still shocked.
We stood there for an awkward moment, before Phantom- no, Danny- spoke. "So you know now?" I simply nodded. "Sam, Tucker, and Jazz are the only humans that know. Ghosts know about me, and hate me. The Fenton Portal... I activated it. From the inside. It shocked me enough to rearrange my DNA."
I just stood there, with my mouth open. I tried to search for words, but I just couldn't speak. Finally, I managed to talk. "Oh..." There was another awkward moment before I spoke again. "I'm sorry..." I whispered, a lone tear falling from my cheek.
"You don't have to be. It's my fault anyways. I should have been strong enough to keep that ghost dog in the Ghost Zone."
"Danny... this wasn't your fault. If I hadn't been so blinded by rage, this never would have happened!" I yelled, more tears going down my cheeks.
"Valerie. We've all made mistakes. The future is what's important." He paused after he said that. "I've been spending too much time with Clockwork."
"Who's Clockwork?" I asked him.
"Clockwork is the ghost of time, and an ally. But, what should we do now?" He answered my question. I thought about it for a second.
"Allies?" I said, sticking my hand out.
He smiled, and shook my hand. "Allies. But how do we explain this to Sam and Tucker?"
"I have no idea." I answered, shrugging. We both laughed after that.
Wow. This is huge. I just hope it makes up for the shortness of the last few ones!