Chapter 5: Answers and Coverups
The Next Day
True to his word, Phantom was there fighting another ghost, this time Skulker who like always-
"I will get your pelt at the foot of my bed ghost child!" Said Skulker launching a barrage of missiles at Danny.
"Sorry Skulker, but today ain't your day, and it never will be." Danny says as he dodges and shoots the missiles out of the sky. Before quickly firing a powerful ectoblast that heavily dented his armor and sucking him up in the thermos.
"Hey dad." Danielle said suddenly popping up from behind of Danny, promptly scaring him.
"Yikes, really Danielle, stop scaring me like that." "But what's the fun in that. The reactions you make are hilarious." She said, the two quickly hugged. "Valerie's on the roof, just incase the Fentons lie about the net not affecting you. She has a claw-gun that can remove the net if it negates your powers." "Thanks, make sure to…Ack!" He didn't get to finish as he was shot out of the sky and crashed into the ground.
'Damn, well looks like my parents made good on their promise, but the force behind that thing, is that even possible for a thing in holes in it?' Danny thought. He saw the Fentons approach him. 'Well, it's show time.' "Danielle, fly away, I'll follow you soon." He said to Danielle, with fake worry in his voice. She caught on the act and with fake worry in her voice as well, she argued.
"But dad-"
"NOW! I'll follow you later. Just go home."
Danielle, moves forward before she turns around and flies away, turning invisible in the process. Danny turns towards the Fentons. "Alright, what now Fentons?" "We have questions ghost boy, and we want answers."
"Alright, I'll answer your questions, but only if you let me go afterwards. I have a daughter to get back to after all." Danny said.
"We'll see what we can do, we may hate ghosts, but no one should lose a father." Maddie said."
"I'm guessing that you want the reporters to record my answers?" Danny asked.
"Yeah, we do, well, first question, how is your daughter?" Started Maddie before she was cut off by Danny. "How does she even exist? Same way humans are born though she was a special case."
"What do you mean?" Asked Jack, Danny sighed scratching the back of his head before answering. "Honestly, she's only about a year old, but a scientist ghost came and stole her, he was trying to see if advanced growth processing would work on ghosts, she has the mentality of a small child in a twelve year old's body."
"What happened to the scientist?" "He's gone, the process that he used on her robbed her of the childhood she could have gotten, and I don't know of anyway to change her back." Danny said.
"Wow, well then next question, you clearly have show the emotions, fear, rage, love, protectiveness, it was too realistic to be fake, it's made us…rethink…our views on ghosts." Madde said.
"Well, like I said, most ghosts have the capacity to feel any kind of emotion, whether it be happiness and love, to sadness and hate. You know I really am glad that you're reconsidering your views on ghosts, this could mean new possibilities, for both our worlds." Danny said, inside, he was proud of his parents.
"Don't get any big ideas spook, you still have to answer for your actions with the mayor and the robberies." Jack said.
"How many times to I have to say this, everybody was overshadowed, I got framed by a ghost with a serious grudge on me and don't you remember freakshow with the whole circus gothica thing. His staff could control ghosts." Danny explained to the hunters.
"Alright, now let's go back to our questions, Phantom, did you know that your power level is 10?" Asked Maddie. Danny paled, it was obvious that he did not, it was confirmed through a shake of his head.
"I had no idea, the last time I checked my power levels was a couple months ago, and it was only 8." "That's another enigma about you Phantom, usually ghosts, when they grown in power, it's in one fell swoop, but you, your power levels are changing gradually. I don't know if this will lead to a build up of one last power spike into your permanent form, or until if it will just continue to be gradual." "To be honest, considering my luck, it's probably going to be the first and honestly, that scares me. But I can tell you that that is not he same with the most ghosts, very rarely is a ghost capable of this." Danny said.
"Hey quick question Phantom, if the girl is your daughter, then who is her mother, and where is she?" Jack asked Danny. Danny apprehensive because he didn't know who the mother was simply came up with a quick lie.
"She's…gone." Danny said. 'And Danielle, has to live without a mother.'
"I'm sorry I asked, so does that mean that she's living without a mother?" Maddie asked. "If you don't mind me asking, what happened to her, did she leave you two?" "Yeah, so that he could be with me!" (Guess who said that.) Danny's eyes turned red, "HOW DARE YOU! I LOVED HER WITH ALL MY CORE, she was taken from me by an enemy, and I do not know if she still even exists. Danielle is all I have left of her, it is why I acted so strongly to when she was attacked."
"We're so sorry Phantom, though we must talk about something. You birth parents should have told you this, considering at how young you are." Maddie said. The reporters, and the audience starterd snickering as they saw Phantom's reaction as to what they were implying.
"You don't mean…oh god, please no, I got that from both my human parents, and my ghost guardian, that much I still remember of my life." Danny pleaded, only for his attempts to be fruitless, when he trieed to take off the net. 'Oh don't tell me this thing has an on/off switch.' As he saw Jack flip a switch that activated the net.
"Sorry, my boy, but it seems you need a refresher. Plus hey, consider this payback for the times you've escaped us." Jack said, as he had laughed at Phantom.
"Now, let's begin…" Maddie started as Danny groaned at what was to come.
A while later
The audience, comprised of civilians and reporters was laughing at Danny's expense while recording the entire conversation as well as his reaction. Danny had his face in his hands, a heavy shade of green marking his embarassment on his cheeks.
"Please stop." Danny pleaded for the umpteenth time. Fortunately the Fentons had finished, but not before scarring Danny's mind. By this time nobody could keep a straight face, and it would be impossible with what happens next.
"Daddy?" Danny looked up and saw his daughter floating over them. The audience almost immediately sombered as they remembered at what had happened to the young girl.
"Danielle, what are you doing here?" "Well, I went home, but after a while I came back, I heard you talking about mom, and something else, which reminds me. Where do babies come from?" Danielle asked her father innocently. By this time everybody had burst out laughing as they realized what Phantom had to do now.
"Oh please, god no." Danny said to himself. He groaned out loud as well, shaking his head as he laughed at his own misfortune. Jack turned off the net and helped Phantom up, he was chuckling as well as he remembered what had happened when he had to give the talk to Jazz and Danny, Danny was mostly fine, but Jazz was pretty scarred.
"I'll explain when we get home. Come on Danielle, we're in for a long night." He said as he started flying with Danielle right behind him. They turned invisible as they headed towards Fentonworks, Danny called Vlad and told him to meet him at Fentonworks since he had to drop of Skulker into the zone, little did he know Skulker heard everything that had happened, and though he knew that a lot of it was a lie, he could clearly hear one thing, the whelp had a daughter, and soon the entire zone would know of it.
Later, after Skulker had gotten flushed.
"WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU NEVER PUT ANY OF THAT INFORMATION WHEN SHE WAS CREATED!" Danny yelled at Vlad, annoyed at what he would have to explain to Danielle. Vlad himself was silently laughing at Danny's predicament.
"I mean that at the time, it did not occur to me that perhaps Danielle would find someone of her own to be with and as such I had not downloaded that certain branch of information into her mind while she was being created." Vlad said to Danny. Danielle stood to the side, wondering what was so bad about what she had asked.
"Dad, what's wrong, it's just a simple question." Danny hesistated before answering his daughter. "It's not that the question isn't simple, it's just that the answer is difficult to explain, just follow me, I'll explain everything soon." He said as he went to his room with her floating behind him.
In Danny's room
"Well, let's get this over with, alright Danielle, now what I'm about to say may shock you so be prepared." Danny said. Danielle with a confident smirk on her face replied to him. "Oh come on it can't be that bad." "Famous last words." Danny said with a grumble. "Well…let's get started."
A bit later
Danielle, had wide eyes of disbelief as her face expression turned to one of disgust as her mind struggled to process the information her father had given her. "So the guy, and the girl, and the touching and…ugh." She shuddered from the mental images she had gotten.
"Told you, how about we go get some ice cream, my paretns aren't yet home, most likely they're at the store getting tech for their inventions." "Yeah, that sounds good." Danielle said, they both walked out of the room. Danielle was still in a freaked out state, when they got downstairs they were meet with the knowing looks and smirks of Sam, Tucker, Jazz, and Vlad, all trying but failing to hide their laughter at Danielle's state.
"Shut up." Danny said as he flew out of the house both invisbly and intangibaly (is that even a word?) with Danielle in tow, they went to the nearest ice cream store, still in Phantom form as it would seem weird for Fenton to be seen with a small girl that hasn't been seen before. The patrons in the restaurant looked over to them before they started snickering at Danielle's facial expression. They came up to the counter. "One cookies and cream sundae, with caramel sauce and what do you want?" "Same, I get it from you." "Alright then double that order." Danny told the waitress. "Alright then, I saw what happened in the news today and I can imagine what happened, so this is on the house." "Thank you maam."
They both ate in silence until Danielle spoke up. "You know, I probably shouldn't have asked that question." "To be honest, I'm glad that yo asked, at least now we won't have to go over it again, and you no know what you need to know for the future. For now let's go home." "Okay dad, thanks for the ice cream. They didn't notice that people had recorded their entire conversation. One was posting it on youtube as 'After the Talk with the Phantoms'.
The two quickly went to Sam's house so that Danielle could sleep, after which Danny quickly went to his own home. It was a peaceful night but for the next couple of days, things would definetly be chaotic, in both the human world and the ghost zone.
In the Ghost Zone
After Skulker had been dropped in the Ghost Zone by Danny, he quickly spread the news, Phantom had a daughter, and it was definetly going to be interesting for the next couple of days.
And so ends this chapter, sorry for the wait, but school has started up and I was pretty busy, but hey I'm back, though updates may take a while. I thank you for waiting though.
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