A/N: Another super long one shot. No, they will not always be this long. I just had this idea, and couldn't stop writing. So, I just kept on writing, and this pooped out. The theme of the last one shot was: Manipulation.
Inspirations: Noblese, Parasite Eve, American Horror Story (Freak Show) and Puella Magi Madoka Magica.
Warnings: Pre-character death; OC.
Summary: Danny was raised in a lab where they experimented on humans with ghost DNA. He was taken from his parents at an early age and was experimented on by a doctor called Rachel Harris. He managed to escape along with two of his friends, but since they are imperfect experiments if they do not take their medication then they will destabilize (break down) and die by melting. Therefore, they need to go around and find supplies of pills to keep living. However, Danny wants to go back and rescue a ghost whom he had made a brotherly connection named Youngblood.
Disclaimer: I don't own Danny Phantom
"Are you sure that there's no one home, Tuck?" Danny asked into a piece of rock that was infused with ecto-plasm. It served as a communicator, though it may have just seemed like a normal material object. Danny looked up at the giant mansion in front of him as he stood behind a tree covertly. He peeked out from his cover unsurely as he looked at the mansion doors.
"Pretty sure that there's no one in there, Danny," Tucker said lazily through the rock.
Danny scoffed, "Can you at least seem like you care about whether or not I get caught?" He asked sarcastically as he rolled his eyes.
Tucker chuckled from the other end, "What, having the Phantom thief get caught? Like that's going to happen!" He yelled, full of confidence.
"Well, here I go, I guess. I hope there's more capsules in there…" Danny trailed as he sighed. He started to run up to the mansion, dressed in all black. "Sam isn't looking too good lately."
"I know. We have enough pills for today, at least. Tomorrow…" He trailed, dreading what he knew about each of their conditions. "I guess, let's not think about tomorrow."
Danny ran a hand through his already sweaty hair, "Unless the information we got was bogus…Then we might have to consider about tomorrow sooner than we think," he stated as he reached the doors only to pull gently on them. They wouldn't budge, and he was starting to pant as his body started to tremble uncontrollably.
"Danny? Danny what's wrong!" Tucker yelled through the rock in concern. "Are you…Breaking down? How? You took your pill this morning-?"
Danny chuckled nervously as he gripped the door handles tighter, "Nah. Sam was looking worse for wear so…"
"So you gave her your pill?!" Tucker yelled with a groan. "What the hell!"
Danny tried to not panic when he saw ecto-plasm leaking from the pours on his body, soaking his skin tight black clothes. He closed his eyes and concentrated on being stable, and in a few seconds he felt the ecto-plasm sink back into his body. He sighed in relief before turning his attention to the rock in his free hand. "Look, this door is locked. You're going to have to find me another way in."
"Why don't you just go intangible?" Tucker asked, confusion in his tone.
"Because…" Danny trailed as he let out a pained breath, "Whenever I use my ghost powers, I get really sick. Remember?"
Tucker was silent for a few seconds before he came back on the com, "There should be an open window. I hacked into the security systems with my powers," he stated as Danny nodded in understanding as he followed his instructions and walked over to the open window that was on the second floor.
"Really, Tuck?" Danny asked in slight frustration as he shook his head. He looked around and couldn't find a tree, or anything to support him up with. He sighed as he looked back up to the window and jumped as high as he could and reached the bottom half of the window. His feet were dripping ecto-plasm and he growled. "I know that you and Sam don't break down nearly as slow as me, but I still don't get that since I use more of my powers than the two of you do," he mumbled, unpleased that he was forced to do most of the labor. He hoisted himself up slowly as his arms strained from the muscle use as he rolled into the opening of the window and found himself on a wooden ground.
"I don't even get it. I think since you were experimented on a different scientist than us, it affects you differently…" Tucker mumbled before he started to fizz out.
Danny looked down at the rock, which had stopped glowing and was now a normal rock. Danny had a slight moment of panic at thinking that maybe Tucker was having a break down. "Tuck? Tuck!" He yelled into the rock. After a few seconds he put down the rock on the ground, "I feel ridiculous now…" He trailed as he shook his head. He felt a presence in the hallway that connected to the room. "What the hell, Tuck! You said there wasn't anybody in here!" He yelled in a hushed whisper as he looked around the room that he was in. It seemed to be some sort of lab and he spotted a storage cabinet. The doorknob to the room started to twist, notifying the teen that somebody was about to enter. He opened up the cabinet and closed it slowly.
"And I am telling you that there have been no break ins!" Yelled a man's voice. Danny held his breath as he strained to listen into his conversation. "No, I will not grant you access to my mansion!" He yelled in further outrage. "Cheese logs, woman! I said no!" He yelled as he slammed something down on the counter, and Danny opened the cabinet door open an inch to get a better look at the man. He had white hair which was groomed into a pony tail and blue eyes. "As if three freaks could even be considered a threat to me…She has no idea whom she is dealing with!" He vented as he scoffed at the mere idea.
"Danny! Danny, are you there?!" Tucker yelled through the rock.
The man turned his attention to the rock on the ground, which was now again glowing a bright green as Tucker had restored his connection with it. Danny visibly face palmed as he tried to not curse out how stupid his best friend was being. "What in the devil-?" The man asked as he picked up the rock.
Tucker waited a few seconds before speaking up again, "You…You aren't Danny…Are you?" He asked in a nervous tone before the man crushed the rock in his hand in one movement.
Danny swallowed in fear, the man was stronger than he looked. "The guy must still be in his prime…" He trailed as he tried to not make any sudden movements.
"Is somebody in here?" The man asked as he looked around the room. He then closed his eyes, and Danny could have sworn he saw them turn red before they were closed all the way. As if the man had some sort of detector, he walked directly to the cabinet.
"Shit…!" Danny mumbled as he looked at his hand, which was dripping ecto-plasm. He then weighed his options, get caught…Or use his ghost powers to escape…Neither of them seemed to be that great. He formed a fist with his right hand, and it lit up a bright green. He condensed it to a small bomb; a smoke bomb to be precise. Danny was a special case in his ways to use his ecto-energy. He could change its physical shape and he changed the ecto-plasm into a chalky solid.
"There you are!" The man yelled as he opened up the cabinets and Danny threw down the ecto-bomb in his hands, providing the area with a smoky area. At that moment he ran down the hallway and out of the room.
Danny was panting even more so now that he had used his powers. "Shit…I-!" He began to yell, but then he suddenly felt nauseous as his legs started to feel cold. He began to feel cold all over, and as he breathed out from his pants a blue wisp would appear. He looked up and couldn't move his body quick enough to avoid the wall that he crashed into. He groaned as he stood up and looked up at the wall, ecto-plasm was all along it from the break down that he was suffering from. He felt a hand on his shoulder and he tensed up.
"What exactly are you, boy?" Came a dark menacing voice from behind him. Danny turned around and was met face to face with a ghost. He had dark hair that was parted to two sides of his head. Almost like devil horns.
"I'm wondering that myself…" Danny said with a smirk as he phased out of his grip, which surprised the ghost as the teen started to sprint down another hallway. At this time, he was getting to the point where he was shivering. He looked behind and noticed that the ghost was flying after him, and he also noticed that he was leaving behind ecto-plasm which was leaking from his shoes. "Even if I do manage to run away, he would just as easily find-!" He started to mumble, but yelped when he couldn't feel his feet touch the floor and noticed that he had turned intangible and was sinking down to the lower level. He blinked for a second as he landed on the lower level, before resuming his running.
The ghost wasted no time mimicking his actions and he narrowed his eyes at the boy, "How did you do that?" He asked, but after not receiving a response from the boy, he sighed as he snapped his fingers. He sent a duplicate to go in front of the boy, so that he would have him trapped. Danny stopped running with a gasp as he noticed the ghost in front of him. He looked back, hoping that it would be unblocked, but was mistaken as he noticed the ghost behind him as well.
"Shit!" He yelled, out of breath, he couldn't feel his body as he fell to the ground. The ghost walked up to the boy and looked down at him, in an intrigued manner. "Well, since you're going to kill me anyways…" Danny mumbled with a sigh.
"Who ever said I would kill you?" The ghost asked incredulously at the boy's suggestion.
"Weren't you on the phone with the Organization?" Danny asked, only he stated it more than asked it. "So then you know that I'm going to be killed regardless if they catch up to me. Honestly, I'd rather get this over with," the boy said with a shrug.
The ghost shook his head, "You aren't going to be killed, boy. I won't have that."
Danny chuckled, "You're a really weird ghost…" He trailed as he looked up at the thing in front of him before changing his description, "Thing…" He added as he then glared slightly at the ghost in front of him, "And my name isn't 'boy,' it's Danny," he stated as he looked down at the ground, only for him to notice that his body was expelling even more ecto-plasm. "Besides…I'm breaking down…If I won't be killed by you, or the Organization, I'll die by the experiments that they did on me."
The ghost looked down at the boy and took in his condition, "I won't let you die, Daniel."
"It's Danny…" Danny argued weakly as he began to cough. He placed his hand over his mouth as he coughed into it, and as he pulled it away, there was ecto-plasm into it. "Gross," he said as he made a frown.
The ghost couldn't help but smirk at the boy's antics before composing himself, "What exactly did you want to steal from Vlad Masters?" He asked, trying to get as much information from the teen while he still could.
Danny coughed a couple of times before he looked up at the ghost, "Capsules…" He stated, and seeing the knowing look on the ghost's face, he sighed. "It won't matter anyway…Hey…" Danny said suddenly, capturing the ghost's attention. He looked at the boy, interested in what he had to say. "You're a ghost, right? Do you think that you could find my brother for me?"
"Your brother?" The ghost asked.
"I should be more specific…His name is Youngblood…He's like a brother, he isn't actually related to me by blood though…" Danny mumbled as he saw that his body was starting to melt. "Shit…" He mumbled as he looked down at his feet, which were the first things being melted. He didn't expect the ghost to suddenly pick him up in his arms. "W-What are you doing?" He asked; slightly startled.
The ghost scoffed, "What does it look like, Daniel? Is your brain 'breaking down' already? I'm saving your life."
Danny didn't know whether to be offended or surprised at his actions, "Why?" He asked as he shivered, feeling a cold wave go over him. "Why even bother?"
"I'm not letting a child die in front of me, don't be absurd. I may be a well feared ghost, but I am in no such way heartless…" the ghost trailed as he phased into the ground and they appeared in a lab.
"It had to be a lab…" Danny trailed as the ghost dropped him off on a metal table. His feet had melted off and his legs were slowly turning into ecto-plasm. Danny watched as the ghost moved frantically around his lab in search of tools. "What's your name?"
The ghost paused in his search suddenly before he slowly turned to look at the boy. "Plasmius…My name is Plasmius, Daniel."
Danny chuckled, in a state of hysteria from losing his feet and now part of his legs, "You seem so shocked…It's not like you have to worry about the information getting out, though," he said with a smirk.
"Stop talking nonsense, boy, you will not die," Plasmius said with a scoff and a slight roll of his eyes. He brought over a syringe over by him.
"You know…Despite losing my feet, it doesn't feel that bad to disappear…Sure, I never did find my parents who abandoned me…But whatever!" He yelled insanely as he watched Plasmius sink the syringe into his arm. Danny cringed at the action, "Dude!" He yelled as he sunk back into the table. "If you're going to inject yourself, could you do it someplace where I'm not dying?"
Plasmius decided to not provide an answer for the hysterical teen as he pulled the syringe out of his arm, it was now filled with a green glowing liquid. He brought it over to the teen, and Danny immediately scooted away from him. "Dude!" He repeated, his face being drained of all color at this point. "I don't want your guts in me!" He yelled as he started to throw his arms at the ghost, only for him to catch one of them and hold it in a steel grip. He injected the syringe into the teen, who was throwing a fit over the matter. "Aah! Get it out! That's nasty!" He yelled as Plasmius pulled the syringe out, the liquid that was in it already going into the boy. Danny noticed this and accusingly looked up at the man, who had a smirk on his face. "You bitch!" He yelled before passing out on the steel table.
Plasmius chuckled slightly at his reaction, but summed it up to shock. He then looked down at the boy who had looked so peaceful in his sleep. "I told you that you were not going to die, Daniel…" He mumbled as black rings went over the ghost and it transformed him into Vlad Masters. Curious, he pulled up a chair to look at the boy even more. "He mentioned his parents…" He trailed, thinking about how such a child could end up in the hands of the Organization. He narrowed his eyes, "I will not let that crazed up scientist get her hands on him again…No…" He said, forming a resolve in his head, "He will stay with me," he said, in an almost possessive tone.
Danny woke up with a headache of a life time, he groaned as he placed his hand up to his head. Surprisingly, his back had felt really good. "Better than the model homes that I snuck Sam and Tucker into…" He mumbled with a smirk. He opened his eyes suddenly and sat up and quickly looked around. "Where the hell am I?" He asked as he looked around and found himself in an unfamiliar room that had the real comfortable bed.
"Ah, Daniel…" Came a voice that he recognized. The boy looked up and noticed the man from the day before enter the room with his hands behind his back. "How are you feeling? Did your feet take form again?" He asked in an innocent and calm tone.
"What-?" Danny asked as he stood up from the bed and found his feet there, despite the events that had happened the day before. "How?" He asked as he looked up at the man in front of him.
Vlad only smirked, "How did they 'grow back'?" He asked with a smirk.
Danny narrowed his eyes at the man, "Answer the question, or I'll-!" He began to threat as he fisted his right hand and tried to form ecto-plasm, only for nothing to happen. He looked down at his hand with wide eyes. "What did you do?" He asked as fear was in his voice.
"I had to make sure that you didn't run away…After all, you and I are so much alike…The ghost energy restraints that worked on me should work on you. You'll be safe here, Daniel."
"First, it's Danny. Second, what the hell!" Danny yelled as he looked at the window. Without his super healing from his ghost powers, he probably would end up with a broken ankle or some other major injury if he were to jump from this height.
Vlad began to walk over to the teen, and Danny took two step back in response. "Dr. Harris won't be able to find you here…" He trailed reassuringly as he smiled gently, "Or anyone for that matter…" He mumbled to himself rather darkly as his smile turned into a smirk.
At the mention of the scientist who experimented on Danny, he tensed up in fear. He had trouble breathing as he shook his head, "I can't…I can't go back there. That woman is-!" He began to yell, having an anxiety attack before he slapped himself. Vlad stopped walking and looked at the boy with a raised eyebrow. "Control your emotions…" The boy mumbled, trying to get the overwhelming sense of fear down. "Although I appreciate your offer, I need to go and find my friends," Danny said in a brave voice as he started to walk towards the exit of the room, only to be blocked by a green shield.
"I'm afraid you aren't going anywhere, Daniel. You will be staying here in this room," Vlad said adamantly, not at all bothered by the fact that the boy was giving him glares that could kill.
"You don't understand!" Danny yelled as he looked at Vlad. "I have to get capsules to my friends, or they'll die!" He yelled in frustration.
Vlad shrugged, "That's not my problem…" He trailed as he started to walk out the door.
Danny scoffed, "And I am!? You hardly know me!" He argued, hoping to change the man's mind.
"Then I look forward to getting to know you, little badger," Vlad stated with a smirk as he left the room, leaving Danny to start panicking on a way to get to his friends. He ran over to the window and looked down from it again.
"I think I could get out of here…If I use those bed sheets and create a rope of some kind…Like those stupid movies!" Danny yelled, a plan formulating in his mind as he ran over to the bed and began to construct his makeshift rope.
Dr. Harris was spinning around in her revolving chair in a bored manner. "Danny isn't here…Damn it, I'm bored!" She yelled as she stopped spinning her chair. Her black hair was up in a bun at the top of her head. "He still had many experiments ahead…" She mumbled as she looked at a clipboard in front of her that had painful experiments that she would personally carry out. "My number one…Number one is gone…" She mumbled in a sing-song voice. She sighed as she leaned against her chair. "He should be dead by now."
"Rachel?" Came an older woman's voice as she walked into the room the scientist was lounging in.
"Mother?" Dr. Harris asked with a frown. "Danny ran away…And he wasn't even complete all the way yet…Now who am I going to cuddle up against?" She asked in a low tone that was meant to sound depressing.
The older woman scoffed, "They are experiments, not people. Get your head together, Rachel. You stole him from his parents in the first place."
Dr. Harris grinned as she started to spin around in her chair again, "He was just so adorable in that public park! Anyone could just swoop in and take him! That cute little pudgy wudgy face!" She yelled, her face growing red from the memory. Her tone then took a dark turn as her face started to contort into a dark glare, "The only thing that went wrong was that he bonded with Frank's freaks!"
"I had warned you to keep a strict tab on that experiment," the woman lectured.
She stopped spinning in her chair again with narrowed eyes, "Leave," she ordered and the woman complied without having to be told twice. She looked at the DNA sample that was in a test tube that held Danny's DNA. It was slowly dying since he had run out of pills to sustain himself. "Why would you run, Danny? We had so much fun together!" She said in a loving voice, though her dark smirk proved to be contradictory. "If only Vlad Masters had let my branch of the Organization in his mansion…Then you would be safe in my loving arms!" She yelled as she held the test tube in her hands and placed it up to her face before rubbing her face on it gently. "Of course I would have had to kill those wretched freaks that you liked more than me!" She growled. "Too late now, I suppose…" She trailed as she placed the test tube back on the table, only to find it glow a vibrant green and it started to replace the lost molecules.
Dr. Harris stared at it for a few seconds. "Mother!" She yelled at the top of her lungs, and the woman walked in.
"Inside voice, Rachel," the woman scolded as she looked at the DNA sample and her daughter's content and scheming face, she could easily piece the two together. "I see. Should I get a search team to look for the lost experiment?"
"Danny. And please do so," Dr. Harris said with a wicked grin on her face. "I just can't wait to have you in my arms once again! The things that I'll do to you…" She said with an insane cackle as she leaned back in her chair.
The woman watched silently at the hysterical girl, "And what of the other two lost experiments?" She asked.
Dr. Harris looked at her mother before she started to spin contently in her chair, "Have Valerie kill them. But she will not kill Danny, is that understood? No one should touch a hair on his charming little head, do I make myself clear?!" She yelled as she stopped spinning and looked at the woman.
"Crystal, Rachel. I will get experiment nineteen and debrief her," the woman said as she walked out of the room.
Danny had finished with his makeshift rope and tied it to a heavy bookcase that was in the room. He gently tossed it out the third story window and found that it barely had touched the ground. "Time to get away from this psychopath," he stated as he glanced at the door and then decided to make the trek down the rope. His upper-arm strength was surprisingly strong as he slowly made his way down the rope.
Suddenly, he felt his body feel weightless and found that he was back in his room and there was pink clouds in the room. He looked around; confused, but once he glanced into the eyes of Plasmius he groaned in defeat as he looked at the window and found that the bed sheets were back on the bed. "What is your problem!" Danny yelled, outraged.
"I had told you, Daniel, that you will not be leaving this room," Plasmius stated with a smirk.
"My friends will die!" Danny yelled as he fisted his hands in anger.
"This doesn't concern me," Plasmius said with a shrug.
Danny narrowed his eyes before he let out a breath of disbelief, "I can't believe you! It concerns me, damn it! Can you just let me give them the pills that you have?" He pleaded with the ghost in front of him.
Plasmius crossed his arms, "No. I do not have those pills anymore."
"What? Why!" Danny yelled as his eyes grew wide with fear.
"Since you will be staying here, you will be getting direct ghost ecto-plasm from me," Plasmius said as he looked at the boy's face and found that he was disgusted and shocked at the statement, "You seem surprised…Did you not know the contents of the capsules that you were taking to live?"
Danny looked at the ground, unable to meet the man in the eye, "I was taking…I was…Shit!" Danny yelled as he looked at the window again and ran over to it.
"Daniel!" Plasmius yelled as he barely caught onto the boy's foot before he went flying out the window. "What in blazes are you doing!"
"You don't understand! They were taking ecto-plasm from my brother! I need to get to the Organization and save him!" Danny argued as he tried to kick off the hold that Plasmius had on him.
Plasmius pulled him up with minimum effort as he dangled the boy upside down in the room, "What part of 'you will not leave this room' do you not understand?"
Danny glared at him, "Then I will give you hell if you don't let me save my friends and brother…Just let me save them…And…"
"Are you pleading with me, Daniel?" Plasmius asked as he chuckled a little.
"And I will willingly stay here. I won't try and run, is that good enough for you?" Danny asked, though he spoke in such a low tone that without his enhanced hearing, Vlad wouldn't have been able to hear it.
Vlad thought about it for a few seconds, "Fine…But, on one condition…"
Danny looked up at the man, "What is the condition?" Danny asked with a dreaded voice.
"I will go with you," Vlad said with a smug grin, "I will not let you run away that easily."
"Fine," Danny said with a shrug.
Vlad chuckled, "I don't need your permission, Daniel," he said in amusement as he walked over to Danny and grabbed him by the wrist. He wove his hand over it, and immediately Danny had felt the familiar cold sensation in his chest. His ghost powers were back.
"Thanks," Danny said dryly, not sure if this was a blessing or a curse.
Tucker heard a knock at the door and he looked at his arms where ecto-plasm was leaking from every pore on his body. He sighed as he got up, although weakly, as he grudgingly went to the door. He was tracking ecto-plasm on the ground, and he knew that Sam would have a hissy fit if he didn't clean it up afterwards. "Danny?" He asked weakly as he gripped the doorknob with his clammy hand. He pulled it open gently and noticed that Danny was standing on the front steps of the model show home, and beside his was none other than Vlad Masters. "Uh…" He stated dumbly as he tried to deduce why this man was at their hideout.
"Long story," Danny stated as he tossed his friend a pill before stepping inside the home.
Tucker caught the pill in both his hands before looking at his friend in confusion. He then looked at the business man who was entering their hideout uninvited. "Damn straight it's a long story!" Tucker yelled as he closed the door with his foot. "Why didn't you talk to me if you were okay?! I was on the communication link for hours yelling for you!" He yelled as he glared at the seemingly alright boy. He then shifted his attention from the teen to the man. "Is he here to kill us or something?!"
"Tuck, calm down," Danny said in a calm voice. "This is Vlad Masters, the owner of the mansion I broke into."
"So he is here to kill us! I knew it!" Tucker yelled as he placed a hand out in front of him and green electricity started to pulsate around his hand.
Danny's eyes went wide, "Tucker!" He yelled, gaining his friend's attention as he raced over to him and forced him to put his outstretched arm down at his side. Vlad was watching the scene with mild amusement as he had his hands behind his back. "He's isn't going to kill us, he's going to help us."
Tucker looked into his friend's eyes, "I can't tell if you're joking…Or just plain stupid…" He deadpanned as his voice was serious as he rose an eyebrow.
"He gave me pills, so he's cool," Danny said as he smiled reassuringly at his friend. "Trust me."
"Yes, as Daniel stated, 'I'm cool'. No need to worry about me. You, on the other hand…" Vlad trailed as he looked over at the boy with a smirk.
Tucker growled as he took a step closer to him, "You want to go, old man!" He yelled as electricity crackled around his body, showing itself again.
Danny put his hands on Tucker's shoulders as a way to restrain him, "Just hurry up and take the pill!" He yelled as he tried to not roll his eyes at the predicament they were in. As Tucker took the pill, though he was glaring daggers at Vlad the entire time, the ecto-plasm on his body started to vanish. The color went back into his skin and he stood up straighter than he had before. "See? Now we're good for a week."
"I guess…" Tucker said darkly as he walked over to the chair he was sitting in previously. He pulled up a screen that displayed the town's security. "According to the camera feed, the Organization is setting up camp in this town."
Danny was silent for a few seconds as he nodded his head, "Alright then, I guess we'll have to move again. What's the next town in the safe range?"
"I don't know…" Tucker trailed as he started to type on the keyboard at a fast pace, "A place called…Amity Park?" He asked as he turned away from the monitor and looked up at his friend.
"If you want to get moving without them being aware of you, you should best be going now," Vlad said in his knowing voice. Tucker glared at the statement but looked at Danny for confirmation.
Danny nodded his head, agreeing with Vlad, "Okay. Can you get into contact with Sam?" He asked as he crossed his arms in thought. "She was looking for clues on where the next set of pills are."
"Give me a few seconds," Tucker said as his eyes lit up green and his consciousness seemed to get away from him for the time being.
Vlad looked at Danny and smirked, "Of course, you're always more than welcome to stay with me, Daniel," he said as began to pace the room.
Danny sighed, "That sounds about appealing as having a 'break down,'" he said with a roll of his eyes.
Tucker blinked and he nodded at Danny, "She's in my range, and I relayed the message to her," he said as he stood up. "I'm going to start packing my things."
"What things?" Danny asked with a teasing smirk.
"At least let me pretend I have a normal life, mom!" Tucker yelled back with a teasing smirk of his own on his face. He scampered off down the hall of the model show home.
Danny could practically feel the gaze on his back, "The answer was no, Vlad," he said in a serious tone.
"Ah, well you're going to end up there at the end of this crusade anyhow. I am a patient man," Vlad said with a shrug. Danny felt shivers run down his back as he tried to brush away the anxiety that was starting to build up in his chest.
"Why are you so interested in me, anyways? I'm just an experiment that the Organization came up with," Danny said as he turned to Vlad with his arms crossed. "I'm not like you, I can't turn into a ghost."
Vlad chuckled darkly, "You can't as of yet. But you will be able to, with a little practice of course."
Danny narrowed his eyes, "Is that why you want me to live with you? So you can train me to be exactly like you?"
"No wonder you are the leader for this small rebel group…You piece it all together so well!" Vlad praised, though from his tone, Danny didn't know whether to take it as a compliment or an insult.
"Danny!" Sam yelled as she ran through the door. She noticed the ecto-plasmic footprints on the ground and looked at Danny with concern. "Is he-?"
Danny put a hand up to silence her, "Fine," he finished for her with a grin. "I got to him in the nick of time."
Vlad scoffed, "Seems like he could have lasted another hour to me."
Danny glared at the man and tried to not growl, "Anyway…We need to get our things together and prepare to move. Tuck says the next place is Amity Park or something," he said as he crossed his arms.
"That's great news," Sam said sarcastically as she shivered, the house began to shake slightly before settling back to normal.
"Are you-?" Danny asked as he took a step towards the girl, but she put a hand up, telling him not to come closer to her.
"Fine," she finished for him before taking a deep breath and then releasing it; to calm herself. "I'm just having a hard time controlling my powers…But I should be alright."
Danny nodded as he watched her walk down the hallway where Tucker had walked down. Vlad could see the longing in his eyes and smirked as the older man crossed his arms in a knowing fashion. "You like the girl, don't you, Daniel?"
The boy's face immediately turned a bright shade of red, "It's Danny, and I don't…Like…Sam," he mumbled before shaking off the feeling of embarrassment before seeing Tucker entering back into the room with a small backpack on his shoulders, "Besides, our lives are too short to even think about things like that," he mumbled again to Vlad, whose teasing smirk had disappeared.
"Hey, Danny, Sam said that she found a small stash of capsules being stored in a small warehouse in Warehouse twelve," Tucker said as he walked up to his friend.
Danny nodded, "That's good. It'll last us a two weeks now…" he trailed as he looked out the door and noticed a black van slowing down the street. It slowly made its way past the door and Danny's eyes widened as he immediately took hold of Tucker's arm and turned them both invisible as the van passed. Vlad raised his eyebrows as he did the same.
Once the van was gone, Tucker looked over at Vlad with a confused glance, "What exactly are you?" He asked as Danny was hunched over, out of breath. He was taking in short gasps and his body was starting to get cold.
Vlad scoffed as he walked over to the teen, "I don't see how that is of any relevance at this point," he said to the boy as he placed a hand on Danny's shoulder. "Are you alright, my boy?" He asked with slight concern, however his tone took a completely opposite emotion as he lowered his voice. "You know you wouldn't need to push yourself if you were to just stay with me," he mumbled into the Danny's ear in a sadistically pleasing tone.
"Yeah…Then you would…Be the one to push me," Danny mumbled as he looked up at the man with a glare on his face.
Tucker glared at the man as he placed himself in-between him and Danny, giving them space. "What exactly is happening here?" He asked in a threatening tone as Danny stood up straighter, his energy coming back to him at a relatively fast rate.
Vlad smirked at Danny as he placed his hands behind his back, "Just remember that when this is over, you will be coming with me."
"I know…" Danny mumbled as he looked down at the ground.
"Uh…Danny, can I talk to you?" Tucker asked as he gripped Danny's shoulder and forced him into the hallway. "What the hell is going on here? What did you sign off on?"
Danny groaned as he placed a hand to his head, a headache starting to form, "Nothing that I can't get out of," he mumbled.
"Really? Because have you seen that guy? He's like the perfected form of our experiments, Danny. How exactly are you going to get yourself out of this?"
"Look, Tuck. Right now we need to focus on keeping you and Sam alive-
Tucker cut him off which started to irritate Danny even more with this situation, "At what cost? The cost of your freedom? Of your life?"
Danny groaned, seeing the truth of the words, "I just wanted to keep you guys alive, I don't really care what happens to me…"
"How is going with that old man any different than staying with the Organization? You know how stupid that was to make a deal like that? What is he even planning on doing with you? Do you know that much?" Tucker asked, his steady stream of questions seemed to increase in volume with each one he asked.
"Tuck-
Danny didn't see the punch coming to his face until he landed on the floor. Shocked, he placed his hand to his cheek where it was starting to get red. "No, Danny, you don't get to say anything! Because I damn well don't want to live in this world if my best friend isn't there with me! Do you understand!?" Tucker yelled as he stood over Danny in an intimidating manner.
"Y-Yeah…" Danny stuttered, slightly appalled over the demonstration that Tucker had harshly given him.
"You may be the leader, but what the hell are we supposed to do without you? Don't make stupid decisions without telling us first. We're a team, Danny," Tucker stated in a normal volume.
Danny nodded, "Right. We're a team that escaped hell together," he said as he smiled.
Tucker returned the smile as he offered a hand to held Danny up, "Friends?" He asked as Danny grabbed it and Tucker helped haul him to his feet.
"The best," he said as they fist bumped.
"Did I miss something?" Sam asked as she came down the hallway with her arms crossed. A black backpack was on her back as she raised her eyebrows in amusement.
Danny chuckled as he rubbed the back of his neck nervously, "Not really."
"Good. Let's get going before your bromance starts to become an inside joke," Sam said with her dry humor as a teasing grin was on her face.
As they approached the main room Vlad was leaning against a wall with his arms crossed, "Are you children ready to get going?" He asked with mock boredom.
"Yup," Sam mumbled as she walked through the door, and passed the man.
"I'm watching you, old man," Tucker threatened as he made a motion with his index and middle finger as he placed them from his eye and towards Vlad.
As Danny walked past him, he was grabbed roughly be the shoulder with a tight grip. "I heard your conversation, Daniel. There will be no getting out of our contract, I can promise you that," he threatened in a dark voice, and Danny could only look at the ground in slight fear at the tone that he took with him. He then released the boy and in a sweet and friendly voice said to the boy, "Shall we get going then, son?"
Danny watched as he made his way down the steps and the boy himself took a shaky first step before a taking another step, this time more full of confidence. How am I going to get myself out of this deal?
"This place isn't as great as the other model homes…" Tuck mumbled as he entered through the door, pick pocking the lock a few minutes before. He tossed his backpack off his shoulders and threw it towards the wall of the entrance hall. "I guess it can live up to my standards," he mumbled, more to himself than anyone else.
"You have standards?" Sam asked sarcastically as she did the same action. She spotted the couch in the living room and tossed herself onto it. "Ugh, my feet are killing me," she stated in exhaustion as she plopped off her combat boots before putting her feet on the couch as well.
Danny entered next, followed by Vlad who was looking at the model home in disgust before glancing at the three teens. "What are you plans now?" He asked the small team, looking for some sort of reaction, but upon receiving nothing but silence he frowned. "You do not have a plan?"
"We don't have a plan yet. Plan A was to keep everyone alive. Plan B will be to gather intel on the Organization," Danny explained before leaning against the wall before slumping down on it as his bottom hit the floor.
"You're still going after Youngblood?" Sam asked as the room started to get silent.
Danny closed his eyes tightly, not believing that he had truly escaped the facility without the ghost that he considered as a brother, "I will not leave him, Sam," he said in a serious tone that Sam immediately sat up and turned to look at him.
"I never said that. Just don't think that you're going back there alone, Danny," she said with a soft smile and a slight blush on her face.
"Thanks. This means a lot to me. More than you can imagine," Danny responded sincerely as he grinned sheepishly, his eyes never breaking contact with Sam's.
Tucker scoffed as he crossed his arms, "Get a room, you lovebirds!"
Sam darted her eyes towards him with a smirk, "This is a room, isn't it?" She asked as Tucker's eyes grew wide and he opened up his mouth to defend himself, but no words had come out of it.
"Well, technically I hacked my way into this house, so this is my room!" Tucker defended with a smug smile, thinking that he had finally one upped Sam for once in his life. He was wrong when she waved her hand pathetically at him.
"Whatever you say, Tuck," she said casually retreated deeper into the couch as she closed her eyes slowly. She was relaxed and more comfortable when she had her friends with her. She started to drift off into a light sleep as Tucker scowled and started to walk up the stairs to the second story.
"It's getting late. I'm going to bed," he said in a huff before vanishing up the stairs.
Danny chuckled as he watched his friend's retreating form, "Don't be grumpy because she won the argument again," he said in a soft, yet lecturing tone.
Tucker groaned, "I'm not grumpy! Just tired!" He argued as a door was closed.
"Yet, he didn't admit to being wrong," Danny claimed in a teasing voice as he lightly shook his head at Tucker. "You've been awfully quiet," Danny mumbled to the figure next to him, who was standing along the wall in amusement.
"How long have the three of you been together?" Vlad asked as he glanced out the window, not looking at anything else in the room. He watched the early morning traffic speed by, attempting to arrive at work on time.
Danny hummed gently, thinking over the question in his head, "Five years…" He mumbled with a soft smile on his face. "It was when other researchers had been moved to the major facility, and I was able to slip away from Dr. Harris. She would always keep me within arm's length all the time," he stated the last part with a shudder, as if trying to repress the memories.
Vlad glanced at the boy out of the corner of his eyes, "You said that you had parents…" He stated, trying to get more information out of him. Because after all, the more information he had against the boy, the easier it would be to apprehend him, should he not follow true to the deal he had made.
"Did I?" Danny asked with a smirk. "I don't remember that…But I guess I might have had parents," he said as he closed his eyes, his head leaning against the wall as he did so. It was easier to forget the world when he was sleeping; which is why he wasn't afraid of dying. He was only afraid of leaving Sam and Tucker alone by themselves. That, and not being able to rescue Youngblood.
"Do you remember any distinct details?" Vlad edged on.
Danny opened his eyes and raised an interested eyebrow, "Why do you want to know about my parents?"
Vlad, knowing that he was starting to sound suspicious only shrugged as he made up an excuse, "Don't you want to find them? If you remember a detail, it would be all too easy for me to pinpoint them."
"As much as I would like to believe that they're still alive…" Danny trailed as he sighed, "They abandoned me. I don't think they'd want to see me again."
Vlad looked down at the boy with a smirk on his face, "Then it will be that much easier for me to adopt you as my own."
Danny's head snapped up with wide eyes, "Wait, adoption? There's no way that I would let you adopt me!" He yelled as he stood up, completely outraged at the idea.
"The way I see it, Daniel, is that you don't have a choice in the matter. As soon as whatever business you have left to do is done, you will be staying with me. I only see it fitting that I would take you in as my own," Vlad stated as he stood up to his full, intimidating height.
"No way!" Danny yelled as he glared at the man. "After I'm done with my 'business' I'm never going to see your crazy face again!" He argued as he walked past the man to walk up the stairs, but got hit in the shoulder with a red blast of some sort as he crashed into the wall right next to the door. The wind was knocked out of him and he coughed, trying to intake some air.
Vlad walked over to him with his hand smoking red as he narrowed his eyes at the boy, "Now, Daniel, that isn't the correct way to address your father."
Danny was stunned and didn't know how to react to him as he blinked to collect his thoughts before slowly standing up, his hand on the wall to support him as he did so. "Okay, okay, let's back up here. Nothing is official yet. You said that you were a patient man, didn't you?"
"Go on," Vlad encouraged as he smirked.
"Well, whenever I'm done with my plan…" Danny trailed hating himself for signing away the rest of his life to the man in front of him. The man who seemed to have a few screws loose. The man who had literally just blasted him into a wall and was demanding that he be called 'father.' "I will go to live with you."
Vlad nodded in a bored manner, "Yes, we have established this, Daniel. This is old news to me."
"So until then," Danny continued, "Respect my wishes and keep your distance. Make sure not to let any of my friends get hurt, and help me rescue my brother. Only then will I go with you."
Vlad tilted his head slightly, thinking over what the young boy had just said, "Very well, I will follow your demands. It's not as if you will be making them as much as following them for that much longer."
Danny narrowed his eyes at the man, "I'm going to ignore that last part and just take the first part," he stated as he started to head up the stairs, completely exhausted from the day long walk into Amity Park. I really need to lose this guy…
Danny yawned as he scratched his head. He was walking down the stairs and into the kitchen on the ground floor. He noticed that Tucker was activating the circuits of the house with his electric ghost powers. The boy looked up and noticed Danny before yelping and throwing his hands up in the air, his powers going haywire for a split second as they shot through the roof.
"Damn it!" Tucker yelled as he quickly regained focus before glaring at Danny, who was grinning madly. "You know I hate it when you that!" He yelled as he glared.
"That look on your face reminds me of a scolding parent. Did I do something wrong, mother?" Danny asked in a teasing tone before sitting down at the wooden table which was made out of oak wood.
Tucker scoffed as he rolled his eyes, "Maybe if my son wouldn't act like such a ghost, I wouldn't have a problem with it!" He yelled as he kept playing with the make believe scenario. "Seriously dude, say 'good morning' when you walk into a room once in a while."
"Does that include nights?" Danny asked sarcastically with a grin that stretched from ear to ear.
"Don't be an ass, Danny," Tucker grumbled as he rolled his eyes.
Danny chuckled before placing his head down on the table and rubbing his neck with his hand, it was sore for a reason that he couldn't explain. He didn't remember running into anything in the past week that could have made it that sore. "I feel really weird this morning."
"More weird than usual?" Tucker asked as he sat down across from him.
"My neck is really killing me this morning," Danny stated as he kept rubbing it with his hand for emphasis.
Tucker narrowed his eyes in confusion, "Is it a cause of a 'break down'?" Tucker asked as he looked over his friend, who seemed to be just fine, and wasn't suffering from any of the symptoms. He didn't have ecto-plasm being leaked from his body, or any discoloration of skin. But then again, Danny was a special case.
"I don't think so, it's just my neck," Danny stated as he removed his hand.
"Here let me see," Tucker offered as he stood up from his chair and walked over to where his friend was, "Maybe it's a bug bite?" He asked as he leaned his face closer and narrowed his eyebrows. "Well, that's definitely a puncture mark. But it's just a single mark."
Danny groaned, "So I got stung by something? That's just great…" He mumbled before rolling his eyes. "I'm feeling more tired than usual, how am I supposed to gather information today?"
"Perhaps I could be of assistance?" Vlad asked as he walked into the room with his smug smile on his face. "As you well know, I do not have any activities planned."
"I think Danny will do just fine on his own," Tucker stated as he glared at the man, still not trusting him in the least. "Or I can go with him."
Danny sighed, knowing that Tucker couldn't afford to spend his day babysitting over him when he had to look up to see where the Organization was stationed at all times. "No, Tuck. You need to stay here and keep me up to date with where the Organization is."
"Then Sam can-
"Sam getting up before two pm? I don't think that's possible," Danny said with a grin that was meant to be teasing, but it came out pained as he rubbed his neck again. "I'll be fine on my own," he said as he got up to his feet before swaying a bit and was about to fall over if Vlad hadn't caught him in time.
Vlad shook his head in a lecturing manner that made Danny uncomfortable, "Don't be silly, son. I'll be sure that you won't collapse. You can trust me."
Tucker looked at Danny, and Danny glanced at Tucker, "Danny should just stay in for the day. No one should push themselves that hard," Tucker reasoned.
"Why would Daniel want to wait a day…When his young friend could possibly be dying inside that facility?" Vlad asked, hitting the exact nail on the head to encourage Danny.
"Vlad's right. I'll go with him. I can't afford to waste another day," Danny said as he scrambled to his feet and out of Vlad's grip. Danny watched Tucker eye him and Danny waved him off, "I'll be fine, I can handle this." Tucker nodded and Danny and Vlad walked out the door. On their way out, they could hear the heavy breathing of Sam as she was still asleep on the couch.
Danny was silent and was trying to look anywhere but Vlad's smug face. He narrowed his eyes at the man as they walked along the sidewalk. "You're enjoying this, aren't you?" Danny asked in a monotone voice that showed his annoyance despite having a neutral tone.
"I always enjoy the time we spend together, Daniel," Vlad responded casually as he crossed his arms. He then look around the town and found it to be quiet, despite it being mid-day. "Although, it is unusual for a town to be this quiet," he stated with a shrug.
"That's because this is an Organization town," Danny stated in a hushed voice as he darted his eyes to a kid wearing a letterman jacket across the street. "A lot of people in Amity Park are covertly being ruled by them."
Vlad raised an eyebrow, "And you think it would be wise for you to be walking around in broad daylight?" He asked in a somewhat sarcastic tone, mocking Danny's intelligence.
The boy scowled, "They think I'm in the other town. That's where they'll look for approximately a day. Until then, I have free reign over this area," he said as he crossed his arms. He glanced up and saw the library in front of them. He smiled to himself at the small discovery and started up the stone steps that led to the building.
"A library?" Vlad asked in genuine curiosity.
"They should have some of their records in here under a hidden category," Danny stated, not bothering to address the man face to face when talking. Vlad glared at the boy's rude behavior, but followed the boy regardless.
The doors were made of steel and creaked when Danny opened them. As soon as he stepped inside he was greeted by an orange haired girl with blue eyes. "Welcome to Amity Park library!" She greeted with a warm smile.
"Thanks," Danny muttered before looking and the giant book stocks that were littered with books. He had been in a library before, but only once. And that time was right after he had escaped from the facility. He wanted to gather information at the town over from the facility, but unfortunately he had been too predictable, and the Organization had seen right through it. Sam and Tucker had to bail him out right as he was about to be captured again.
Shaking away the memory, he bravely walked over to a book sock with the letter 'O.' Vlad shadowed him silently as he examined what the boy was doing. "The letter O?" Vlad asked with slightly narrowed eyes in confusion. "Isn't that a tad bit broad?"
Danny didn't bother looking up and ran a hand over the letter O that was stapled into the bookshelf. It had lit up a violent green before returning back to normal. "It reacts with my ecto-signature," he stated as he looked towards the back of the library as the green light went from the bookshelf and made a trail that only he could see on the floor. "Of course, this will mean that they will know where I am now," he mumbled before making his way in the back of the library.
There was an area that stated 'Working personnel only' and Danny phased himself through the locked door effortlessly. Although, as soon as he did reach it to the other side, he was hunched over and gasping for breath. Vlad glared his eyes down at the boy when he had also phased through. "You shouldn't use your ghost powers," he stated in a serious voice.
"What?" Danny questioned as sweat was pouring down his face, "And depend on you?" He asked with a grin on his face that made Vlad glare. "No thanks."
"You will have to rely on me eventually," Vlad stated broadly as he smirked, and Danny's grin faded immediately. He knew what the man was implying, and he didn't like it at all.
Danny then decided to push Vlad out of his mind as he started to walk into the factory-like room as he glanced up at the steel bookshelves that contained various weapons and artifacts from the Organization. "This one must be a main branch for their operations," Danny said as he looked down at the ground and noticed a small filing cabinet next to one of the bookshelves. "There. That's what I need," he said as he went over to it and bent down to examine the lock. "If only Tuck were here. He could hack into that easily…" He mumbled as he sighed.
"Allow me, Daniel," Vlad said with a grin on his face that stretched from ear to ear. Danny was about to decline the man's offer with a glare, but didn't need to. As Vlad reached down to touch the cabinet, a ghost shield appeared around it, repelling him on the spot as he flew into a steel bookshelf.
Danny chuckled as he stood to his feet, mocking the man, "I'm glad I didn't touch it!" He yelled as Vlad scowled.
"What are you two doing back here?" A woman asked from behind them as the two turned to look at the person. It was the librarian from before. "Are you…" She trailed as she looked at the two of them before looking at the cabinet. "After the Organization?"
Danny glared at her, he was not about to turn back now after getting this far, even if it meant fighting this girl to do that. "That depends on who's asking," he stated as he didn't move, but was prepared to in an instant.
The girl narrowed her eyes at the boy for the rude attitude he was showing, "Well excuse me Mr. Sunshine, but I work here!" She snapped back as she crossed her arms, not finding him a threat in the least. At this, Danny knew that she wasn't a normal girl…She had fighting experience.
"We don't have time for this," Vlad said as he transformed into his ghost half, not caring if the girl had seen as he charged up an ecto-blast and aimed it at the girl.
The girl saw the attack and did a handstand backwards before positioning herself into a crouch as she took out a steel rod that was charging with green electricity. "You want to go, frootloop?" She asked with a grin on her face as she charged at the man.
Danny could only stare at the fight, taking in the girl's fighting style with awe. "Somehow I've seen these moves somewhere before…I think…" Danny trailed to himself, not bothering to help Vlad out at all in the fight. He did in fact say not to use his ghost powers. He crossed his arms in amusement as he stood and watched.
"Girl! Where did you learn those moves?" Vlad asked as he turned intangible to evade the attack, only for the girl to smirk as she switched a button on the rod. Green ecto-goo came flying out of the rod and landed on the ghost. Vlad yelled out in surprise as he crashed into the steel bookshelf again. He was dazed and out of the fight for a while as the girl turned to Danny.
"Now it's your turn to eat the beating!" She yelled as she ran towards the boy.
Danny's eyes widened at the sudden attack as he dodged behind the cabinet, "If it's you dishing it out, then no thanks!" He replied with his witty banter as he made a scowl to show his disgust. She flung her rod in anger, hitting the cabinet as she did so.
"At least try and get angry!" She yelled as she tried to get to him, but he was in the small crawl space between the cabinet and the bookshelf.
"I think you're getting angry enough for the both of us!" Danny yelled with a smirk on his face.
She growled as she kept trying to hit him, but only kept managing to hit the cabinet, "Why! Won't! It! Reach!" She yelled in a childish fit as she narrowed her eyes.
Danny chuckled at the girl, "You were acting like such an adult before…What happened?" Danny teased as the girl yelled as she hit the cabinet again.
"I am an adult!" She argued, as if they were bickering siblings. They both heard a cabinet being opened by itself, and they both turned towards the unknown sound.
"It opened?" They both asked together and looked at each other in surprise. "You were wanting it to open?" They asked again and then Danny narrowed his eyes.
"What, you thought I was with that Organization?" Danny asked as he crawled out of the crawl space. He then dusted himself off and looked at the girl. "Don't you work here? Why would you want that to open?"
The girl looked down at the ground with a frown on her face, "My…Brother…Was taken from me…He was three years old at the time. We were at a park and…" She trailed, her eyes watering.
Danny didn't know what he was doing, but he felt a need to comfort the girl as he placed a hand on her shoulder, "I'm really sorry. I was abandoned to the Organization…So I guess we both got screwed over, huh?" He asked as a small smile found itself on his face.
"Yeah…I'm Jazz," she said as she put the rod down, and it had turned off in the process.
"Danny," he said with a nod. He turned around to the cabinet to examine its contents that he had missed the shocked and for longing look on Jazz's face. "Alright, I need the access codes to get into the main branch. They have someone important to me in there…" He trailed as he skimmed the files with his fingers.
Vlad groaned as he came to, he saw that the girl was hovering over Danny and assumed that she was coercing him into something. He growled as he fired an ecto-blast at the girl and Danny looked up at the last second, "Damn it!" He yelled as he ran up and took the blast for the unaware girl. He skidded back into the steel cabinet and blacked out.
"Stupid boy," Vlad scoffed before almost getting swatted by the now aware Jazz.
"What the hell do you think you're doing?!" She yelled as she turned on her ecto-rod again as he dodged to miss her hit. "We came to an understanding, Dufus!" She yelled again and the man growled.
"That attack was meant for you, girl," he spat out.
Jazz glared as she was about to hit him again, only for her to hear a groan from the unconscious boy. "He said he needed access codes…And the Organization already knows that he's here…" She trailed as she ran over to the cabinet again.
"Why do you care about Daniel?" He asked in a suspicious glare.
"Because…" She stated as she trailed, finding the files that Danny was looking for. She stood up and looked Vlad straight in the eyes, "Because he's my long lost brother."
Three year old Danny cried as he looked for his parents. He was being taken by the hand of some girl in a lab coat with a wicked grin on her face. He didn't like it. He didn't like it at all.
"M-Mommy!" He yelled as he tried to pull back to get to her. "Daddy!" He yelled again as his crying got worse. "Jazzy!"
"Shh, shh!" The girl lectured as she placed her free hand to her lips. "Your family abandoned you. Your parents abandoned you," she stated as she scooped him up into her arms and he squirmed to get out of her arms with a frown on his face. "But don't worry little Danny…I'll take care of you from now on!" She yelled out in an almost demented tone as she snuggled him closer to her. He protested as he tried even harder to get away from the girl.
"No!" He yelled as they were reaching a black van that had looked ominous to the young boy. "N-NO!"
Danny woke up and tried to look around, only for his head to start killing him. He saw four faces staring back at him. He knew that two of them were girls, and two of them were boys. He groaned as he rubbed his head with the back of his hand.
"Why the hell did you shoot him!?" Sam yelled as the house started to shake, due to her uncontrollable powers. Vines started to align themselves along the wall as Flowers of various kinds started to grow on it.
"You're fucking dead, old man!" Tucker yelled as he leapt after the old man, who easily dodged.
Vlad scoffed as he filled his hand with an ecto-blast as he threw it at Tucker lazily, "It was the steel bookcase that gave him a concussion."
Tucker unleashed his ghostly electricity as it cackled around him, absorbing the ecto-blast so it wouldn't hurt him. "You were supposed to look after him!"
"Oh he was…He was trying to shoot me, instead!" Jazz yelled as she charged at the man with her rod cackling violently from Tucker's ghostly electricity.
Four year old Danny was sitting on his bed with his legs crossed. The mattress was lumpy and he wasn't comfortable at all. A girl walked in with a grin on her face and her arms behind her back in an excited manner. "Rachel…" Danny addressed as the girl grinned even bigger.
"Danny!" She yelled in a sweet tone as she sat down on the bed of the small room. "How are you today?"
"I don't feel good," he stated as he started to shake uncontrollably. He pulled his legs to his chest to try and keep him warm. "I want to go home."
Rachel chuckled as she pulled him closer to her, "Danny, you are home!" She said as she started to stroke the boy's head with her hand in a –motherly- fashion.
Danny narrowed his eyes as he pushed her away from him, "No! I want to go home to my parents!"
"Danny," she spoke in a serious manner, making the boy cringe thinking that he had done something wrong. When he looked at her, she had a small smile on her face. "They left you. They're never coming back. But you have me, Danny."
Danny didn't know what to say as he leaned into her form, and Rachel smirked as she started to rub the boy's back. "You won't leave me?" He asked in a defeated tone as he started to cry.
"Not on your life," Rachel said in a sweet tone as the boy hugged onto her tighter, taking in her warmth to comfort his freezing body.
Danny woke up again feeling disoriented, his head and hurt worse this time. Jazz was sitting on his bed and looking down at him. "How are you feeling?" She asked, but the boy didn't understand what she was saying and he shook his head slowly.
"I see…Danny…Mom and Dad never stopped looking for you, you know," Jazz said and Danny scrunched his eyebrows together in confusion. All he had heard was 'Mom' and 'Dad.' "Not even the police would help look for you…The Organization's influence ran too deep in this town. I had Mom train me in karate so I could sneak into the Organization and take you back."
Danny groaned as he clutched his head, it was still giving him a pounding headache. What did he do that made him this way?
"I was so close…The library job was a step away from me working within one of their facilities…But I see now that you had escaped from that hell hole," she said in a softer tone. "You're safe now, little brother."
Danny heard the word 'Safe' and he had thought that he was dead, maybe in heaven. Because he knew that he would never be safe. Now with Vlad and Dr. Harris after him. He closed his eyes, succumbing to the sleep that was pulling him in again.
Six year old Danny walked into the testing room and noticed a new girl that he hadn't seen before. Rachel Harris was standing next to her and when she saw Danny she smiled warmly at him before bringing the girl over to the boy. "Danny, I want to introduce you to someone," she said as she leaned down to the kids' levels. "This is Valerie Gray, she'll be staying with us from now on."
"Hiya Valerie," Danny said with a small grin on his face. "Rachel, do I have to do tests today? I feel really sick from yesterdays."
"Danny, of course you have to do them. I'll tell the doctors to be easy on you today," Rachel said as she stood up. She then started to walk away, leaving the two of them alone together.
Danny looked at the girl as his smile faded away, "You want to go home, don't you?" He asked, already knowing what the girl was going through.
Valerie looked up with wide eyes, "How did you-?"
"Because I had that feeling before. You think that they abandoned you, don't you?" Danny asked as he looked around the room and noticed a guard standing next to each door. "This is your home now, and if you need someone to talk to, I'll be here."
Valerie watched as a guard walked up to Danny before the boy nodded, already knowing where to go. She had noticed that he had started to shiver uncontrollably from the moment the guard had touched him. "Danny," came an older form of her voice.
Danny looked, now in his adult form at the girl in a red skin tight suit. "Val…" He trailed as he took a step back as the memory scape started to disappear into darkness. "Why are you trying to find me?" He asked cautiously as he took another step as he saw her start to walk towards him.
"Rachel wants you home," she stated as she crossed her arms. "You know that we have a connection," she said with a small teasing grin meant to tone down the seriousness of the situation.
"I never wanted that connection," Danny stated as he sighed. "Dr. Harris coerced us to share our ecto-signatures with one another. It just made it easier for her to find either one of us."
Valerie sighed as she went out to touch him, only for him to put up a green ecto-shield, preventing her from doing so. "Danny, just make this easier on both of us and let me find you."
Danny glared at her, "You know that once you do you'll kill Sam and Tucker," he stated and she only stared at him, not denying it in the least.
"You never needed them. They're freaks. They're unstable. They're-
"Don't you talk trash about them!" Danny yelled and suddenly his ecto-shield turned into one giant ecto-blast as it aimed itself at Valerie.
"Valerie…" Danny spoke as he groggily sat up on the bed he was on.
"Danny!" Sam yelled as she ran up to him. "Are you okay? Do you remember…Wait…Valerie?" She asked with a scowl on her face.
Danny blinked up at her and sighed, "I was going through my memories in my dreams. She…" He trailed but stopped when Tucker ran in with tears in his eyes.
"Danny!" He yelled as he hugged him, showing more affection towards Danny then Sam did. Sam's scowl darkened as she couldn't stop the glare that came to her face. "I missed you, man!"
"I hardly got to talk to him, Tuck! Fuck off!" Sam snapped as she pushed Tucker off of her best friend as she leaned in closer to him. "He had a dream of Valerie."
Tucker's eyes widened, "Shit, are you serious?" He asked as he took a step closer to him. "That's bad news, man. Real bad news."
Danny nodded, "We're going to have to infiltrate tonight before Valerie finds us. If she does…" He trailed grimly, already knowing the answer, and so did his two friends.
"Operation Organization Infiltration is underway," Jazz stated as she entered the room with Vlad right behind her with a smirk on his face.
"The sooner this is done, the better," Vlad stated, and Danny knew what he was referring to.
Sam turned to Danny and put a scolding finger up at the boy, "And don't you dare fall asleep! We can't afford for Valerie to find us in the dream scape."
Danny nodded, "Let's get going. Youngblood is waiting for us."
The rest of the group nodded and headed out of the model home and towards the next city over; Pestilence.
Tucker was waiting at the front entrance of the facility that reached several stories up. "I'm here, is everyone online?" He asked into the small stone in his ear that served as his com to the rest of the group.
"Goth one is online," Sam stated over the link.
"Clueless one is also online…Why am I Clueless?" Danny asked with a frown on his face.
Jazz sighed as she spoke, "Spazz is online."
"I'm not saying mine. But I am also online," Vlad stated into his.
Tucker nodded as he began punching in the access code into the numbered area. "Aaand I have it," Tucker stated as the glass doors in front of him opened. The rest of the group came out from hiding around the area and entered the facility behind Tucker.
"Vlad and I will go and rescue Youngblood…Tucker, you go rescue any other of their projects," Danny barked out orders as he turned to the women in the group, "Jazz and Sam, you see if you can find any capsules. Make sure to take all that you can."
The group nodded and all set off to their separate missions. Danny and Vlad started to go up the stairs in the stairwell. "He should be at the top of the building. That's where Dr. Harris would keep him."
Vlad rose an eyebrow, "How did you meet this ghost?" He asked as he looked at the boy who had a mixture of emotions on his face.
"I accidentally wandered too far and found him. Dr. Harris found me but thought it would be fine for me to continue visiting him," Danny stated as he took one more step before ducking down when a guard came out of the fourth floor door. He had a drink in his hand and started to make his way down. Danny glanced at Vlad and the man smirked before shooting off a barrage of ecto-blasts into the man's chest.
Danny looked at Vlad with a glare on his face, "You didn't have to do that much," he said as he looked down at the man's scorching body with slight disgust on his face.
"He would have been attacked eventually," Vlad shrugged, not seeing what he had done wrong.
Danny didn't want to find out if he had killed the man and decided to start sprinting back up the stairs. Vlad followed behind him with a smirk on his face. "I will have to teach you to control your ecto-plasm. It will benefit you in the future."
"I'm not going to kill anyone for you," Danny stated as they had reached the eight floor of the facility. He started to get nervous and had a feeling of anxiety in his stomach. He didn't like this place. It brought back terrible memories that he didn't want to relive.
"My dear boy, there will be times where you have to kill. I am not going to tell you that you will not have enemies being powerful," Vlad stated and Danny flinched at what he had said.
"I refuse. Youngblood wouldn't want to see me doing those things," Danny said with a frown on his face.
Vlad shrugged in indifference, "I can train Youngblood as well. Then you will be together. Isn't that what you want?" He asked as a smirk started to appear on his face.
Danny stopped running and turned to Vlad with a scornful expression on his face. Anger was flowing off of him in waves. "You will not be teaching him a thing," Danny stated with a dark glare.
Vlad crossed his arms, "You don't have the power to stop me, Daniel."
"You do not want to see the ugly side of me, Vlad," Danny stated as his eyes started to illuminate a dark shade of green as they flickered to red and then back to green in a second. It had made the boy dizzy as he caught the railing of the stairwell before he fell.
"Quite the contrary, I believe the ugly side of you would be very entertaining," Vlad said with amusement as he started to walk up the stairs again.
Danny let in a breath to calm himself before following the man's actions. They had finally reached the top of the building on the twenty-fourth floor. Danny grabbed the door handled and slowly pulled it open. He expected to be as much security as there usually was. Although, he was surprised to find that no guards were positioned on the floor.
"Something's not right," Danny stated as he stepped into the hallway. The cameras were watching him like a hawk and followed him as he walked down the white hallway. He knew he was being watched, but it was extremely unnerving to not see anyone try and stop him.
"It seems as if we were expected," Vlad said as he patted down his suit.
Danny noticed the door at the end of the room and ran over to it as he yanked the doors open. In the green tank was a young ghost that was asleep. He had looked drained and exhausted and Danny couldn't help but assume the worst as he sprinted over to the glass and put a hand on it. "Youngblood!" He yelled as he pounded on the glass a little.
The ghost opened his eyes tiredly, "D-Danny?" He mumbled as a small smile started to appear on his face.
"Yeah, it's me, brother," Danny said in a soft tone that Vlad had never heard him use to anyone before. Not even his friends had seen this side of Danny. He smirked knowing that he would be able to use Youngblood against the boy if he had ever defied him.
"I…Thought you had left?" He asked as the young ghost placed both of his hands on the tank.
"I did. I came back for you. I'm going to get you out of here, I promise," Danny said as he started to look at the tank and noticed the control panel on his left. He walked over to it and started to examine the buttons.
Youngblood looked pained as he looked down at the ground. Danny had noticed and walked back over the tank. "What's wrong?" Danny asked, sounding extremely concerned.
"I can't leave, Danny," Youngblood said with a sad expression as he met the confused eyes of Danny.
"What do you mean? You can leave as soon as I get you out of here," Danny said as he shook his head.
Youngblood sighed, "They took too much energy this time. If I leave now, I won't…"
Danny's head looked down as he clenched his fists in frustration. "I was too late!" He yelled as he pounded against the tank. "They knew I was coming!" He yelled in anger.
"Yes, Danny. We knew you were coming back to us," Rachel's voice said as she entered the room with her hands in her white lab coat.
Danny turned around and saw the girl before his right hand formed uncontrollable ecto-plasm. It was raw, and Vlad was impressed that the boy's powers could become so powerful. "You…You!" He yelled in a fit of rage as the temperature in the room started to drop.
Rachel smiled gently at the boy, "Now, now, Danny. Don't be so…Testy," she stated as she glanced at Vlad with cold eyes. "Surprising seeing you here, Vlad."
"Don't speak as if we're old acquaintances, Rachel Harris. I could easily tear your throat right out of your body," Vlad spoke with equally cold eyes.
"Tch, you better hope that your manners didn't rub off on Danny," she stated with a shrug before meeting her eyes on the boy whom had been missing for two months.
Danny fisted his hand with the raw ecto-plasm and it formed into a sword of ecto-plasmic energy. It had lightning crackling from it, and it was by far the most powerful attack he had come up with as of yet. He was furious that they had hurt his brother to this extent. It was time for some retribution.
Sam and Jazz were running to the first basement floor. Jazz looked at Sam with confusion as she raised an eyebrow. "Are you sure you know where you're going? Not that I doubt you or anything."
"Oh, I know exactly where I'm going," Sam said as she turned a corner, only to dodge roll on the ground to miss the sword being aimed for her throat. If she hadn't moved when she did, she would have been beheaded. Sam looked up and hissed out the name, "Valerie."
"Samantha…" Valerie said with a grin on her face. "The wayward failed experiment has finally come home. Of course, I would be happier that I get to eliminate you…" She trailed as her cold eyes looked down at Sam. "If only I didn't know that you had spent two months with Danny."
Sam chuckled as she stood up. Jazz turned the corner with her ecto-rod out and turned it on. "What, afraid that I might have tainted him with my dark rituals?" She asked as she crossed her arms.
Valerie glared at the girl, "You aren't meant to have him. You're not even a perfect experiment," she stated as she charged at her again with her sword raised, only for it to be blocked by Jazz who had stepped into the line of fire. "And who is this?" Valerie asked to Jazz.
"Your opponent," Jazz spat out as she thrusted her weapon towards Valerie, making the girl skid backwards a few feet.
"Not bad…Your form is admirable…" Valerie trailed as she looked over at Jazz and then smirked, "But it won't matter. I have enhanced senses. I am superior to the two of you, you won't win."
Valerie had to block a vine that had uprooted itself from the concrete floor as it attacked her. She glared as she looked at Sam whose hands were glowing a vibrant green. "I might not be perfect, princess, but at least I actually have useful powers."
"Ha, I'm best suited for Danny. He is meant to be with someone who is as superior as him. Rachel never approved of you two hanging out at all. It was a mistake," Valerie said as she cut through the thick vine with her thin sword. It had hit the floor with a resounding thud as Jazz was caught off balance momentarily before catching herself.
"Danny would argue that it was the best mistake that he had ever made!" Sam yelled as her eyes lit up green thorns appeared from the floor, making Valerie stand on top of a small cart that was positioned in the hallway so her feet wouldn't get impaled. "He was way happier with us than he was with you!"
Valerie scowled before taking out throwing knifes and tossing them at the two girls. Jazz blocked the knifes with her rod while Sam summoned a ghostly Venus flytrap to grab the knife by the teeth before flinging it back at the girl. Valerie grumbled as she back flipped to an area that didn't have thorns protruding out of the floor. "He was just taking pity on you. He wouldn't actually like imperfections like you and that other piece of trash."
"Shut up!" Sam growled out as her hands lit up green and one after another, vines started to target Valerie wherever she was, and wherever she had stood for a split second, making the girl dodge out of the way. As soon as Sam had released that much power she started to tremble as she fell to the floor, her strength in her legs giving out.
"Sam!" Jazz yelled as she ran over to her. "She was trying to make you angry."
"It worked…" Sam muttered as she looked up to Valerie's smug face.
Jazz stood up and raised her weapon to the front of her in an offensive position, "What should we do?" Jazz asked as she noticed Valerie stepping on the thorns on purpose, not crying out as she did it.
Sam started to chuckle, "The only thing we can do…Try and survive."
It had gone silent in the room as Danny glared murderous daggers at the woman in front of him. "You think that it's okay to do this?" He asked in a dangerous tone. "He's a person…"
"It's a ghost, Danny," Rachel said slowly as if she were talking to a child. "It doesn't get a say in what we do to it," she said as she started to walk towards him, only to pause when his glare darkened.
"Stay back," Danny growled out.
Vlad watched in amusement as the doctor was trying hard to calm down the boy, only to make him angrier by the second. Vlad had thought that he was the only one who could do that. "That's right, Daniel. Don't let her get away with what she's done."
Rachel darted her eyes to the man in the room, "As if you are one to talk. Might I recall what happened to the boy's parents?" She asked nonchalantly. She knew she had gathered Danny's attention when she had mentioned the word parents.
"W-What is she talking about?" Danny asked, his anger slowly dying down.
Vlad rose an eyebrow, "Yes, what are you talking about?"
Rachel turned towards Danny with a sad look on her face, "Don't you ever wonder how Vlad had gotten his ghost powers?" She asked as Vlad's body tensed up. "He had gotten them when there was an accident in college. Jack Fenton, a humble man who hadn't known any better, and a fair woman with orange hair; Maddie Walker. Then there was Vlad as well."
"This isn't of any relevance to Daniel," Vlad stated as he waved his hand.
"Isn't it?" Rachel asked with a smirk on her face. "You see, Jack had mistakenly turned on the proto-portal they were working on. Giving Vlad his ghost powers. We know about this because the hospital he was taken to had been run by the Organization."
Vlad's face was full of shock in one second before he frowned darkly, "I refuse to believe this nonsense. As should you, Daniel."
Rachel then turned towards Danny as she took a few steps closer to the boy, "While Vlad was recovering, Jack and Maddie had gotten married. They had a beautiful daughter by the name of Jazz…And a son by the name of Danny."
Danny shook his head, "No, no, no, no…" He repeated as he shook his head. "No, that can't be…No…" He trailed as he looked up at the doctor. "Then Jazz is my…?" He asked as he swallowed nervously, "W-What happened to them?" He asked.
"They were killed," Rachel stated and Danny's eyes went wide. His hold on his ecto-weapon loosened as his mouth went dry. "Killed by this man over here. Killed over vengeance. Vlad couldn't get over the fact that Jack had a happy life while he had suffered. So he killed Jack."
Danny looked over to Vlad and the man rolled his eyes at the boy, "This woman could be telling lies to you, Daniel."
"Danny," Rachel called softly and the boy looked up at her with confused eyes.
"What about…My mother?" He asked, almost afraid to ask.
Rachel shook her head, "Suicide. She could not stand the fact of raising her daughter by herself. She hadn't gotten over the fact that her son had disappeared. For that, Danny, I apologize. I had taken you from your family, but at least you are still alive because of it."
Danny stared in disbelief, "He…" He trailed as he looked over at Vlad. "You…Killed my parents?" He asked, his palms were getting sweaty, and the boy didn't know what emotion he was feeling at the moment.
"Don't be overly dramatic. This woman took you from your family," Vlad said as he gestured towards the doctor, whom he noticed was almost in front of Danny.
"You…Killed my parents..." Danny trailed, feeling so lost within himself. He then looked at Rachel, "But you took me from them."
Rachel placed a comforting hand on his shoulder, "Yes. But we have Jazz in our custody. She wouldn't live in the streets. We have had your best intentions from the start."
Vlad scoffed, "Stab her while you still can, Daniel!" He yelled from the sidelines.
"Danny," Rachel called softly. The boy looked up at her with a pained expression, "Put the weapon down."
"Do not listen to her!" Vlad yelled as Danny nodded towards Rachel.
Rachel held the boy closer to her and pulled him into a hug. She took in his scent and smiled gently. "Put the weapon down, Danny. It will be fine. You won't need to suffer anymore."
Danny slowly put down his weapon as it vanished into green smoke, "What about Sam, Jazz, and Tucker?" He mumbled into her chest.
"They will be safe. I promise," Rachel stated with a nod of her head.
"Cheese logs! I'll kill her myself!" Vlad yelled as he charged at the doctor as he morphed into his ghost half. Rachel turned her head and glared in his direction. Guards that were camouflaged into the walls came out with ghost weapons and attacked Vlad all at once forcing him onto the ground. He growled out in pain as he changed back into his human counterpart.
"Take him to a cell. I will attend to him at a later date," Rachel ordered to one of the guards, he nodded stiffly and did as she said.
Danny only shook his head, "I can't believe that he…"
Rachel cooed Danny and stoked her hand against his head, "He was a sicko, Danny. He's gone now. You're safe and where you belong."
Valerie had knocked Jazz out and had a blade to the throat of Sam. She smirked at the defenseless and powered out girl. "How does it feel knowing that I will be the one with Danny?" She asked as a cut on her arm was leaking blood uncontrollably.
"Feels pretty great knowing that I will be the one forever in his heart, slut," Sam countered as she glared up to meet her executioner face to face.
"Not if I tear you out of it with sheer force," Valerie stated as she brought the blade closer to her throat, drawing a few droplets of blood from the girl.
Sam smirked, "Good luck with that. We've already done it, bitch," she said to irritate Valerie. It wasn't true, Sam was still a virgin, but it felt good to get under the girl's skin.
Valerie narrowed her eyes in shock before shaking her head, "It doesn't matter who was his first so much as his last," she said with a grin.
"I hope you eat your words," Sam said as she closed her eyes.
Valerie was about to slice the major artery, but stopped when Rachel came walking down the hallway with her hands in her coat pockets. "Val," she stated, getting the girl's attention. "Don't kill her. I've promised Danny."
"But your order were to-!" Valerie started to argue because she had wanted to end the girl whom she considered trash's life.
"And now they are changed," she stated patiently. "Find the other piece of trash. We lost sight of him," Rachel said as she looked down at Jazz. She snapped her fingers and a guard appeared over her. "Take that one to a cell as well."
Sam glared at the doctor, "You're going to wish that you had killed me," she threatened as the doctor started to chuckle.
"Yes, I suppose I would. But this is what Danny wants…" Rachel said with a shrug. "Keep him in your memories, trash, because that will be the last time you will get to see him."
"You can't keep us apart. We have formed a bond stronger than you could ever imagine!" Sam yelled but was slapped across the face by Valerie.
"I swear if you keep talking like that…" Valerie trailed darkly. However, her threat was carried upon deaf ears as Sam was knocked out by the slap. She looked up at the doctor who seemed pleased with her work. "How is he?" Valerie asked with slight concern.
Rachel shrugged, "I am not sure. He has been through many things. He will need some rest," Rachel stated as she walked around the corner. Valerie nodded in understanding as she looked at the ground. She put a hand to her chest in worry before turning around and venturing towards the security room in search of the last remaining target.
Tucker had always gotten the odd jobs. And by odd…It was really odd in all respects and sense of the word. He passed down several pods of ghosts that were being held hostage as they saw him, they turned to take a better glance at the human with ghost like powers.
"My, my, don't you look tasty!" Penelope stated from inside one of the pods as she placed a hand up to the glass. "Misery just leaking right off of you…" She trailed as she stuck her head in the air and took a giant whiff. "So delicious!"
Tucker released a shudder as he kept on walking. "I know I was supposed to release the prisoners, but that one…" He trailed as he felt a shudder run through him again as he continued along the hall. He eyed a girl with flaming blue hair as she was humming a gentle tune. She saw him and she smiled, her black eyeliner on her face didn't get ruined by the action.
"Baby pop! Look who came down for a stroll!" Ember yelled as she stood up from the small bench that was in her cell. "What brings you down here? Last I heard your little clan of tools escaped?"
"Funny story about that, Ember…" Tucker trailed as he rubbed the back of his neck sheepishly, a trait that he had certainly picked up from Danny. "I'm back. I'm going to set all of you free," he said as he glanced down at Penelope's cell, "Except for that one. She's messed up."
Ember chuckled, "We all are…But I'm glad you're here. Get us out of here, doll face," she said as her tone grew pleading.
Tucker nodded as he brought his hand over the cell and green electricity appeared out of his hand, dancing out of it and into the cell lock. There were a few 'tinks' and 'tonks' before he final managed to hack open the lock with his powers. Once the cell opened, Ember stepped out, feeling her ghost powers returning to her as she summoned her guitar and her hair grew larger and more intense. "You ready to make some noise?" He asked with a sly smile.
"Born ready! Let's give them a show they won't forget!" She yelled as she strummed a loud chord on her guitar, causing sound vibrations to break all of the other cells, and all of the ghosts in containment were released and eager to get pay back for their many years in captivity.
Danny was sitting in his cell that he was brought to, curtesy of Rachel. He sighed as he ran a hand through his hair, he couldn't do much now except follow her rules. Although, by this time Youngblood should have had enough power to at least escape with him. He would also need to find Jazz, not to mention Sam. And Tucker…But Vlad?
"I can't believe I ever listened to that manipulating asshole!" He yelled as he punched a wall with inhuman strength as it caused a small crater as a result of the action. There was a blaring alarm and he looked out the small window of the steel door that kept him locked in. "Either that's Tucker…Or the security in this place wasn't as great as it used to be…" He trailed as he glanced down both sides, only to suddenly see Valerie appear at the window.
"Danny," she addressed with a small smile.
Danny glared in return as he gave her a small frown, "Are you happy now, Val?" He asked as he backed away from the door as to get further away from her.
Valerie sighed as her smile faded, "Seeing you being hurt never makes me happy…" She trailed as she looked at the ground in shame. "I can't find your friend anywhere-"
"His name is Tucker," Danny snapped, somewhat cutting her off as she just finished her sentence. She looked up suddenly and he glared more, "No, I don't know where he is," he said as he looked away.
"I wasn't going to ask you that…" She trailed as she glanced to the side, "Why did you run away? Was it Rachel pushing you too hard? Was it me?"
Danny sighed, "Val…Listen. I'm in love with Sam. I was in love with Sam from the moment I first saw her. She has this personality that's so free and so unique…I want to spend every moment of my life with her."
Valerie suddenly looked up with anger in her eyes, "That won't happen, Danny. Rachel will never let you see her again."
"We'll find a way. We have an unbreakable bond," Danny said with a small smile, remembering the past two months with Sam, and how amazing it was being in her company. He would do anything, even give away his life, knowing that she would be able to live a few more days.
"No!" She yelled suddenly, "You don't! What we have is an unbreakable bond! You two don't…You don't…" She trailed as she fisted her hands, unable to hold in her anger, or express it much more at that point.
"But we do!" Sam yelled from down the hall. Val turned to look suddenly with wide eyes as she saw the giant bruise on the girl's face from her slap from before.
Valerie's gaze darkened as she turned to look at the intruder, drawing out her weapon and placing it by her side, ready to use. "Sam? Sam!" Danny yelled from within his cell. He was able to hear her, just not see her, due to the small space that the window on the door provided.
"What are you doing here?" Valerie demanded as she started to walk towards her.
Sam's right eyebrow was raised with a taunting smirk on her face, "Slow, aren't you? I said that I was brought back to Danny because we have a connection."
Valerie growled as she started to sprint towards the girl, "I'll kill yo-!"
She was instantly knocked to the ground by Jazz's weapon, since she had snuck behind Valerie while Sam provided the distraction. Sam smirked as she looked at Jazz, "We make a pretty good team, don't we?"
"You bet we do! Let's go rescue my brother!" Jazz yelled as she ran to the door and whacked it with her weapon as it caused a large dent on the door. Danny took a step back as the next swing knocked the door down in the space he was in before.
"I can't tell if you're trying to save me, or hurt me," Danny half joked before sprinting out of the room. "Where's Tuck?"
Sam smiled, "Preoccupying Rachel and her goons. He's giving us time to rescue Youngblood," she said as Danny grabbed her hand into his.
"Let's get going, then," Danny said with a small smile as he started to run, having Jazz by his side as he was sprinting towards the top floor once again in the same night. He glanced at Jazz, who seemed focused at the matter at hand. "Jazz…" He started as the girl looked at him. "I know who killed our parents…"
"Our parents…?" She asked, slowing down her pace a little. "Who…Who did it? Who did it, Danny?"
Danny sighed as he stopped and turned around, "Vlad…He killed them."
Jazz was silent as she nodded, "Understandable, let's get going," she said as she started to run up the stairs again.
"She took that surprisingly well…" Sam trailed as Danny nodded slowly in suspicion.
"Too well…" He trailed as they kept running to their destination. He knew that Jazz was boiling with anger, and just the look in her eyes, Danny knew that look from living on the streets for two months. Those were the eyes of murderous intent. He had no doubt in his mind that if Jazz ever sees Vlad again…Well…He tried to not think about that for now as he kept pushing himself to rescue his little brother.
"Youngblood!" Danny yelled as he entered the room, only to find Rachel standing in front of the capsule with a clipboard in her hands. He halted a few feet from her in shock and worry as he glanced at the skittish ghost in the capsule behind her. "Rachel…" He glared as he felt his vision grow brighter.
"Danny," Rachel addressed as she took a step closer to him with a thin smile on her face. "I see that you have taken care of poor Val…" She trailed as she shook her head in disappointment. "I didn't know this is how you treated family?"
Jazz growled as she took a step in front of her brother as she put a hand on his shoulder, "You aren't his family…You experimented on him and tried to call that love!" Jazz yelled as she glared, "You're sick!"
Rachel sighed, "Danny knows that he belongs here…" She stated as she put her arms to her sides, "Come here, Danny," she said in a soft voice.
"No," Danny stated with a dark tone. "You took me away from my family…" He said as he looked at the tank behind her and found Youngblood watching the scene with a worried expression, "Were you ever going to tell me about Jazz? Or my real family?"
"Danny, dear child, you never asked-!"
"Because I didn't know!" Danny yelled in anger as he felt his ghost core start to grow colder; stronger as he glared harder. "You were never going to tell me!"
Rachel sighed once more, "Danny. You need to calm down. You are still upset-"
Danny shook his head adamantly, "No…I'm perfectly fine…" He stated as a white ring appeared over his mid-section, just like how Vlad's transformation was. He transformed into an alternate ghost version of himself as he hovered over the ground slightly; unconsciously. "And I'm going to take you down."
"Dear me…" Rachel stated as she put down her clipboard on the ground, "Then I guess…" She trailed as a black ring appeared over her mid-section, making Sam and Jazz gasp in surprise as it revealed a demonic version of the doctor. "I'll have to beat you into submission?" She asked as she grinned.
"Wasn't expecting that!" Jazz yelled with wide eyes as she turned on her rod and it cackled with electricity. She quickly charged at the doctor with a battle cry as she set her weapon up to hit the doctor in the side. However, as she swung, the doctor turned intangible and the weapon went right through her. "What…?" She asked as the doctor turned her head around, much like how an owl does with a demented smirk on her face.
She chuckled as her red eyes seemed to laugh as well, "Did you not think I would not perform experiments on myself?" She asked as a blue energy field surrounded herself, knocking Jazz back into the tank where Youngblood was held captive. It cracked under the pressure, but Dr. Harris didn't take note of it. She turned her head back around only to see a flying punch going straight towards her. She caught the white gloved hand with her gently one as she looked into Danny's pained face. "Danny…You are by far the most successful experimented I have made…Other than myself…" She trailed as she lowered his fist down, despite his constant struggling to get his fist loose. "I just can't bear to hurt you…" She trailed as she shook her head in disappointment.
Sam glared as the room started to shake violently, "Let him go…" She ordered as her eyes lit up a dark green and green roots started to become uprooted from the ground. They charged at the doctor making her let go of Danny to put a hand up to defend herself from the oncoming attack. It was a clear force field that made Danny's eyes grow wide with surprise and panic.
"How…How are you doing that?" He asked as she looked down at the boy with a sweet smile on her face.
"Years of experience…Danny, you have just unlocked your full potential. Your mitochondria has fully evolved and became something incredible," Rachel said with a proud smile. "You no longer need testing, but rather…Guidance…" She stated with a smirk.
Jazz yelled as she took another swat at the doctor, only for a purple force field to appear, stopping her weapon as it clashed against it. Jazz's eyes went wide as the doctor's voice went down multiple octaves as the temperature in the room started to decrease. "You dare interrupt me while I am talking to my precious Danny?" She asked in a dangerous tone, and soon Jazz began to have multiple cuts and scratches on her body that started to bleed immediately. The blood fell from her body at an alarming rate and started to pool on the floor creating a small puddle of sorts. The girl screamed as she fell to the ground, covering her body with her arms, hoping to gain a relief from the pain.
Danny growled, "Don't hurt my sister, Rachel!" He yelled as his eyes illuminated blue and his hands started to form snow on them, and the doctor looked down with an intriguing look. As Danny sent the attack at her, she was unprepared to absorb the attack, and was thrown back across the room. Danny glanced at Jazz and saw how severe her wounds were. She didn't have any powers to heal herself with, and she started to shake rapidly. "Sam!" He yelled as the dark haired girl ran over and bent down to examine his sister.
"Jazz!" Sam yelled as she held onto her shoulders, only for the girl's eyes to close. "Shit! She's going into shock!"
"Sam, can you do something? You might have one of those plants that you can control that has healing properties?" He asked as he saw Rachel stand up from the wall, which there was a huge crater against it from the impact of her body.
Sam looked uncertain, "I don't know if I can, Danny! I'm not a perfected experiment! I can't-!" She started to yell, only for Danny's hands to suddenly grasp her face softly. The look in his eyes sent her heartbeat racing and she was sure that her face had turned red from the proximity their faces were at.
"You're perfect to me, Sam. Please…Save her," Danny said with a desperate tone that Sam immediately nodded her head and the boy started to walk towards the doctor with a dangerous gait in his step. Sam began to glow a light green color as she tried to summon a healing ghost plant that would save Jazz's life, only except she didn't feel like she had that much power left in her at all.
"Danny…That wasn't very nice…" Rachel stated as she dusted herself off, making large chunks of wall fall off of her. "I've raised you better than that, I'm sure," she said with a grin as she started to walk towards him.
Danny growled as he started to charge towards her, his fist glowing with green ectoplasm that was pure energy in his hands. "You didn't raise me at all!" He yelled as he released his attack at the doctor and she smirked.
"You better make sure to kill me, Danny, because if you don't, I'll have you back in one of those cells and the rest of your worthless friends disposed of!" Rachel yelled as her hands lit up with a yellow energy as the attacks collided with each other, making a smoke screen around the area.
Sam cringed as she felt the shockwave of the attack from the other side of the room. She then shook away her concern for Danny as she found the plant that she needed with a grin of triumph as she began to place it on the wounds that Jazz had on her body. "Jazz? Jazz!" She yelled, trying to gain some sort of response from the girl, and Jazz started to glow a fain green from the healing factor. "Jazz, you have to wake up! Danny just found you, he can't lose you!" Sam yelled as she gripped the girl's hand tightly.
Jazz groaned weakly as she opened her eyes slowly, "Sam?" She asked as she looked into the girl's worried eyes.
"You're alive! I did it?" She asked, still in confusion that she had managed to do something useful for the first time in her life. She was needed and she had managed to fulfil her mission. "I did it!" She yelled in her success, only to hear a body hit the floor.
Jazz's eyes went wide as she saw the smokescreen clear and saw her brother on the ground, barely breathing as his body was bruised and battered. "Danny!" She yelled out as she tried to sit up, only to find no energy to do so.
Rachel cackled as she started to walk towards the two girls. "He's an amateur at his ghost powers…He should have known this would be the result…" She trailed as she shook her head. "And now I'm going to kill the loose ends…This way, he'll have no one else but me!" She yelled insanely with a twisted smirk on her face.
"You're fucking insane!" Sam yelled as her eyes started to water as she glanced at Danny. He moved his hand and then his shoulders gently as he looked over at his family with wide eyes. "Wasn't Danny important to you? How could you do that to him!?" Sam yelled again, trying to draw attention from Danny.
"I do care about Danny…That's why I'm doing this for him. He's hurting with you people around…"
Rachel said with a smirk.
Sam glared as Rachel stood a foot from her, "He'll hate you."
Rachel cackled, "He'll thank me for it later…" She trailed as her hand lit up a yellow light and Sam smirked, which confused the doctor slightly.
"Dr. Harris…" Danny trailed as he managed to get up to his feet, though he was swaying slightly. Rachel, who was genuinely confused at how he could possibly be standing after the attack that she had dealt him.
"That's not…I miscalculated?" Rachel asked as she turned around to face the boy.
"Maybe I wasn't clear?" He asked in a dark tone. "Leave. My. Family. Alone!" He yelled as his scream turned into a ghostly wail and she was brought crashing into the wall. The scream lasted for several seconds, but it was long enough to make her become unconscious.
As soon as he was done with his attack, he transformed into his human half unwillingly as he grinned softly. Jazz managed to stand up and limped over to her brother who was not on his hands and knees from lack of energy. Sam ran over as well and brought Danny up by one of his arms and Jazz did the same with the other. "Are you okay, Danny?" Sam asked warily.
"Define okay?" Danny slurred with a grin on his face, but Sam grinned, and Jazz smiled at the response.
"Let's get Youngblood and get out of here!" Jazz yelled as they went over to the glass container and found that it was DNA locked, and that only Rachel could unlock it.
Danny scoffed, "She knew I wouldn't leave without him! Shit!" He yelled as he felt like kicking himself for thinking it was that easy.
Jazz inspected the glass container and found that spot where she had landed on it. "Wait a minute, this spot is weak. If I attack it, it should be able to break fully!" Jazz yelled as she grabbed her weapon and brought it to life with one push of a button.
"Jazz!" Sam yelled, thinking that there was another safe option that wasn't reckless.
"Don't!" Danny groaned out, urging her to stop.
Jazz didn't wait for anyone as she attack the spot and liquid came pouring out, carrying them off the ground slightly as they all lost their balance. Youngblood floated out of the crack in the wall looking much livelier than he had ever been. He chuckled as he high fived a downed Jazz who was a little discombobulated from the fall. "That was awesome!" He yelled with a cheeky grin.
Danny coughed up some of the liquid managed to get into his lungs, "No…It wasn't…" He grumbled as he strained to stand up, only to find it get slightly easier. He looked to his left and found Sam, and to his right to find Jazz supporting him up. "Way to make me feel old, guys," he teased with a small grin.
"Let's get out of here!" Youngblood yelled as he did a few loops in the air, just happy to be out of a containment chamber.
As they were running out of the facility the alarms were screeching and red lights were flashing uncontrollably. Jazz suddenly stopped when she spotted one door that she was keeping an eye out in particular. Danny, who had managed to regain some of his energy was running just fine now.
"Jazz?" He asked cautiously as Jazz ignored him and moved to the door. She peered through the window and found that Vlad Masters was sitting on the bed with a bored expression on his face.
"Vlad," Jazz hissed through the window.
The man looked up with a raised eyebrow, "Well, well, if it isn't Jasmine…" He trailed with a smirk as he stood up with his arms behind his back perfectly. "That must mean that Daniel is here as well?" He asked as he looked at a glance through the window and found the boy he was looking for.
Jazz narrowed her eyes, "You killed them," she stated as she clicked her weapon on, waiting for a chance to beat the life out of the man.
"Killed who?" Vlad asked as he tilted his head to the side to try and think about it, "Oh, yes! Your parents. Yes, I'll admit to killing Jack, but your mother decided to end her own life."
"She was grieving!" She yelled back as her hand tightened around her weapon. "You killed her husband…And she told me to hide in the closet like the scared little girl that I was!"
Vlad chuckled, "Great advice…Maddie was always the smartest one. If I would have seen you, I probably would have killed you on the spot…" He stated as he shrugged.
Jazz threw her weapon at the door angrily as it created a dent, making the man jump back slightly, losing his cockiness that he once had. He didn't have his ghost powers in the cell, which meant that if Jazz went in there with her weapon, he wouldn't be able to defend himself. "You…Killed them!"
"Jazz, please…" Sam pleaded to get them to start moving.
"Jazz, he isn't worth it," Danny tried to persuade her to leave.
"Daniel…Surely you won't leave me here?" Vlad asked as he saw the frightened and scared look on the boy's face. "Not that it would matter either way…I could easily get out of here. I am much more powerful than Dr. Harris is…" He trailed as he crossed his arms.
Danny glared at the man, "If I ever see you again, Vlad, it'll be too soon," he said in a dark tone as he grabbed his sister's shaking hand. "Jazz is showing you mercy, don't forget that," he said as he started to walk away with his sister in tow.
"I know for sure that I haven't forgotten our deal…And when I get out of here…" He trailed as he smirked at the boy, "You will belong to me."
Youngblood glared at the man, "You talk too much!" He yelled as he shot an ecto-blast at the door, and the man jumped, slightly startled at the raw power that the young ghost had. Youngblood chuckled as he flew faster to catch up to the group.
"Tuck!" Danny yelled as he was standing outside the facility with a duffle bag filled with pills in his hand.
"Took you guys long enough! I freed the prisoners and found the pills! I did two jobs!" He complained, thought the boy had a smile on his face as ghosts started to cackle as they phased in and out of the facility, causing mayhem wherever they could to get their revenge.
Sam smirked as she punched him on the arm, "Yeah, but we got taken prisoner, and I had to fight Valerie."
Tucker's eyes grew wide with surprise and amazement, "Dude, you fought Valerie?" He asked as he looked at Sam and then at Jazz who was grinning sheepishly at the accomplishment. "And you lived? Damn!"
Danny chuckled as Youngblood pulled his hand while hovering in the air, "Come on, I want to get away from this place, Danny!" The young ghost yelled as the group started to walk slowly.
"What do we do now?" Jazz asked with a small smile on her face.
"I think we should go to Alaska…You know…Far away from the Organization as we can possibly be!" Tucker yelled with a slight chuckle.
Sam scoffed as she crossed her arms, "I think they might have a facility in Alaska, Tuck."
Tucker feigned surprise as he turned around, "Not Alaska! Those bastards!" He yelled with a smile.
Danny looked at Jazz with a proud smile, "You didn't kill him…Even though you could have," he stated as Jazz nodded.
"It wouldn't have changed anything," she said as she swung her weapon over her shoulder with a small frown, "But now he'll start coming after you…What does he want from you, anyway?"
"Everything…" Danny trailed as he sighed, "Anyway, I'll train to make sure that he can't beat me."
Sam grinned as she grabbed his arm gently, "Speaking of training, what was that wail back there? And those ice attacks?"
Jazz chuckled, "He was even using electricity!"
"What?" Tucker asked as he frowned, "Dude, that's my thing! Get your own!" He yelled as Youngblood started to chuckle at him, "Great, now Youngblood's laughing at me!" He yelled in frustration.
Everyone started to laugh as the sun started to come up on the horizon, "The sun's coming up…" Jazz mused as Danny nodded.
"Time to find a new place to live!" Danny yelled with a grin.
"No more model homes, please…I beg you!" Tucker yelled with a desperate frown.
Danny nodded in agreement, "Something more permanent…" He trailed, "What about California?" He asked with a grin.
Sam smiled slightly, "We're going to need some money then…California is expensive…" Sam said with a knowing grin.
"Time for the Phantom Thief to make his next steal!" Tucker yelled as he put his hands behind his head.
"That's not a thing, Tuck…" Danny said with a sigh.
Youngblood chuckled, "I like it! It fits you!" He yelled as they stopped at an empty van. Tucker used his ghost powers to hot wire it and it revved to life as they all got in.
A/N: And that's a wrap! This was only meant to be a short one, but I like the idea. And I was going to keep going with it, but damn, it got too long. So I'll just end it here.