I'm late in updating...just not totally late. School is once again taking over my life with projects due and yadya. Getting told off by a coworker that i need to go to the doctors. I got a screwed up knee and crappy insurance so my family really don't have the money right know. It's really habitual hiding pain and faking emotions.
This story will never be abandoned and might have a sequel. Hasn't been decided yet.
I do not own Danny Phantom or Arrow.
Chapter 15: I guess this will never end…
It was mid-morning when Danny was woken up by a beeping. 'I'm going to blast that thing sky high.' He thought opening his eyes.
"Told ya, it would wake him up." Dani stated from above him.
Danny sat up from where he was, he looked around for the clock, seeing the ten staring back at him. "As much as we would be okay with you sleeping in, there are some questions that you need to answer." Diggle stated, walking over with Lyla who had papers in her hands.
"Okay, shoot." Danny said while trying to get the kinks from out of his spine.
"Where were you last night when everyone else was in bed?"
"Patrolling."
"Then why were you at the foundry?"
"To work on the portal." Danny sighed knowing he needs to explain. "Laurel did make a point. The ghosts know where I am now, no thanks to Vlad. I can't keep using the thermos, it'll eventually break apart from the pressure."
"How much longer will that take?"
"A few more hours yet and it should be safe to turn on." Diggle looked at Lyla before she handed the papers she had to Danny. "These are…"
"If you would like to become part of the family officially." She looked at Dani. "Both of you."
"I-I" Danny stuttered, he looked at Dani to see her hopeful expression. "Thank you." He said looking back up at the two.
"The only other person able to understand you is a fruitloop. He's not getting a hold of you anytime soon." Lyla said with a smile. "Someone else need to talk to you."
Danny looked down to Dani who was nervous, looking at the floor. "What's wrong?" He asked her.
"I want to explore the world yet."
"As much as I would rather you not go; this is still your choice. Just come back now and again to visit." The two halfas hugged tight before the youngest flew off. Danny looked at the two behind the sofa. "What are we going to do about Vlad?"
"The question is, how do we get him into trouble with the law?"
"Find any connections Vlad has with the GIW."
"Felicity can contact Lance to be wary of Masters." Diggle stated out loud.
"If Vlad can be accused of providing the GIW with something illegal, then he would back off." Danny said from the couch looking up at the ceiling.
"There's also the point of getting your ghost half cleared from charges."
"I've had charges since Amity Park. Even though people didn't see me as a hero, doesn't mean I'm going to stop protecting them. Besides, Fenton was pronounced dead."
"Oliver was pronounced dead while five years on an island."
"I don't need the attention."
"Unless we can use that attention to back him down."
"I don't want the attention."
"We'll plan more tonight at the foundry. For the time being you need to eat." Lyla cut in looking between the two before setting her eyes on Danny.
(Line Break) A/N: Foundry; Vlad plans-'Kidnapped daughter'
"Where's Dani?" Felicity asked when she couldn't find the ghost girl.
"Off exploring the world." Danny replied coming over from the deeper part of the foundry. He walked over to his desk to grab the mini welding torch, he passed by Felicity's touch screen.
"What are you doing?" she asked watching what he was doing closely.
"Getting everything set-up." Felicity looked over his shoulders while he brought up a scanner of some sort. She looked down to see a chart showing the ratio between electricity and ectoplasm. They were almost equal in amounts. Danny expanded the chart to get a closer look at it. "It's almost ready."
"Ready for what?" Oliver asked coming down the steps with Diggle and Lyla behind him.
"The portal to turn on." Diggle stated taking a look at the charts that Danny had up. "What are you waiting on yet?"
"The amount of ectoplasm and electricity to become equal. Once electricity charges the molecules in the ectoplasm it will form into ecto-energy, allowing the portal to stabilize. I just need to set up the ecto-filter."
"How's that special?"
"It will filter out the used ectoplasm sending in the fresh ectoplasm. It will need changed once a month."
"What would happen if it isn't changed?"
"A fiery explosion." He turned around to head back to the portal, he stopped getting the shocked expressions from the four. "Don't worry it's not going to happen."
"I'm still trying to figure out where you are getting the ectoplasm from." Felicity stated.
Danny's breath hitched before replying. "You really don't want to know." He was swallowed by the darkness after walking away from them.
Oliver turned to Felicity when she sat in her chair, he watched as she brought up a screen with a list of codes. "What's that?"
"Danny gave me a list of possible codes to get into Vlad's files. Since both systems run off of ecto-energy. His friend, Tucker, was a techno-geek. He created the system for Danny, so no one outside his team would be able to figure out his secrets."
"Does it also have the code to get into that locked file?" Lyla asked coming over when she heard the boy's name.
"No, but he said if I understood ecto-energy through electronics than I would've been able to get in by now."
There was a ding from the screen with the chart up, a green line went straight across the graph. There was a chain reaction that every screen in the foundry showed something different. One screen showed a map, another had energy levels, the other had ghost files. The cables that connected the computers glowed a radioactive green that looked a lot like the ecto-energy of the weaponry.
"Danny!" Felicity called, "What is going on!?"
Danny ran out from where he was to see Felicity on the verge of a panic attack. "Don't worry that's normal." A few more seconds past that the energy died down and the energy disappeared.
"What happened?"
"In simple terms, the ecto-energy ghostified your systems. You are still able to reach everything, it just makes it easier for your systems to adjust the added energy from the portal." He tried to explain.
Felicity cautiously sat back into her chair and stared at the screen in front of her. The others stared worriedly at her, Danny was concerned that he did something wrong. It was Oliver that walked over to her, "Everything okay?"
"The program that I had running to figure out Vlad's files got in. I had ran it twice and it only now got in."
"You just got into Felicity's good graces." Diggle stated from behind them.
"I never realized that would happen." Danny said back.
"He did what?" Oliver asked felicity.
"According to the emails he sent to the GIW; Vlad ordered them that the Fentons had Phantom in their lab. He told them to extract him out without hurting Mrs. Fenton."
"Obviously they didn't follow orders."
"So, why did they give your location away?" Lyla asked Danny who stared into space. Lyla walked over to him, "Hey, you okay?" he snapped out of it, he let his hair fall to the point that it covered both his eyes.
"Vlad's main goal was to make me his son and mom as his wife." Danny eventually replied, his voice a little shaky. "My parents figured out my secret that day, he must've known."
"He was going to shut the GIW down so he looked like the good guy to get into your mother's good graces."
"When the GIW failed in following orders, he left you with them." Diggle said figuring out where the conversation was going.
"To break you down so you would want to be near him for safety." Oliver looked at him, understanding what happened.
"I can't be under his care. Otherwise HE will come into existence." The others looked at him as he moved back into the shadows.
"You guys need to turn on the news." Roy said coming down the steps, he stopped at the foreign object in the corner of his eye. "What is that?" He walked over to Danny who was kneeling down at the base of the portal.
"The soon to be active ghost portal." Danny looked up at Roy. "I heard earlier, what's happening?"
"Vlad is happening."
They walked over to Felicity as the screen showed Vlad at a podium, "The criminal known as Danny Phantom has kidnapped my wonderful daughter Danielle. I did not want the world to know that I had a daughter, fearing that she would not have lived a normal life." He act like he was wiping a tear away before looking back at the crowd. "I believe it was his intention after I prepared the companies for anti-ghost weaponry. Just like there are good and bad people in this world there are good and bad ghosts. One will be coming here who has dealt with Phantom before. He is the ghost of an old time warden. Phantom has escaped his grasp before and will be willing to come out to help with our problem as long as he is not attacked by anyone here."
Roy turned to see the look in Danny's eyes that made him scared. His eyes glowed the green of his ghost form but also had a tint of red in it as well. "Danny, relax. He can't get Danielle, remember she flew off to travel the world." The others watched, gauging what they should do next. He closed his eyes and took a deep breath, the glowing receded into his normal blue eyes.
"Sorry about that. Vlad is just getting on my nerves."
"He's getting on all of our nerves." Oliver said ready to interfere if he goes south. "How much longer until the portal is ready?"
"Five minutes top." He returned to the shadows of the foundry.
Felicity turned to her computers typing in the code necessary to get into Dan Phantom's files.
"What are you doing?" Diggle asked.
"I know the code to get into the locked file."
"Felicity, you really don't want to know what happened." Oliver warned her. They watched her emotions go by as she read the file, a stray tear falling now and again. She turned around to face the others. Oliver leaned down hugging her hoping to calm her down. "He's still fighting that side of himself. We can't let Vlad get a hold of him." Felicity nodded her head calming down. Oliver began to move away but stopped when she gripped his shirt in desperation. The other three looked at each other with knowing glances.
When Danny returned, Felicity calmed down enough to let go of Oliver. This time he was reluctant to let her go. "It's ready, if any of you wish to see it." everyone walked with Danny to see the empty portal. He took the cable and plugged them in, there was a flash of green light before a swirling portal appeared.
"That's it?" Roy asked.
"Inside is a lot more interesting." Danny took the thermos and released the ghosts inside. He shut the door, it was a yellow and black caution door. "I need to check and make sure that everything is stable. You guys can head out."
The next chapters are mapped out, surprisingly. Now I won't forget what i wanted in the chapter. As for the explanations of ecto-energy and the applications through the technology, that was my theory.
Yes, i ship Olicity. I'm one episode behind on Arrow, really need to watch that.