The glowing green liquid in the vial stated glowing fiercely as a strong electrical current was run through it. Once the current ceased the glowing stopped and a muddy colored liquid was in it's place Maddie placed it in the scanner. The box ghost was contentedly playing with a box while trapped in a glowing cage. Maddie came back with the scan's results. Cujo paced his glowing cage chewing on a toy and occasionally barking.
"50 percent ectoplasm, 50 percent human blood." Maddie read off excited. She eyed the liquid. The ectoplasm and blood was separating, the lighter ectoplasm flowing toward the top. Jack jumped like an excited puppy.
"More electricity!" he yelled placing a different vial of ectoplasm in the holder where the former was. They doubled the output of electricity. The glowing cooled and Maddie grabbed the new vial scanning it quickly.
"30 percent ectoplasm 70 percent human blood." Maddie rattled off. The ectoplasm was once again separating. They removed the vial and replaced with another of just ectoplasm once more. They put the electricity output to max. This time when the light faded, the green ectoplasm slowly swirled around in the vial. Maddie frowned. Then she saw it. A ribbon of red working it's way through the ectoplasm from bottom to top. Maddie gasped. The red became more apparent and began to change faster. Soon the entire thing was red. Maddie scanned it with trembling hands. She looked up flinging her arms around her husband.
"100 percent human, 100!" they yelled with triumph. Upstairs Danny had just walked into the house. Jack smiled spinning his wife around in celebration of their new success.
Danny stared at the table, another painful looking gun being assembled. Danny shivered not wanting to know what this one did. As Maddie focused intently on it her brow furrowed. Danny pulled out a bowl of cereal and sat down pouring milk into the bowl and crunching contently on Frosted Flakes.
Maddie dropped a piece that gave out an electric shock that turned Danny's cereal blue. Danny stared at it for a minute then debated whether or not to continue eating it almost putting the spoon in his mouth before putting it back into the bowl and standing up dumping it into the hazardous waste basket.
You can imagine how much fun the Fentons had keeping Danny out of that as a toddler.
Danny then picked his bag up from its position on the floor by the stairs and headed out the door leaving Maddie to continue working on her invention.
Jack came down a few minutes later pulling a carton of eggs and a pound of bacon out of the fridge. He looked over at Maddie.
"Hey sweetums, what you working on?" Jack asked. Maddie smiled.
"It's the same thing as the experiment in the lab, except on a larger scale. Now that we've found the ratio of electricity to ectoplasm that we need to convert the ectoplasm back to human cells mainly blood then we just have to fire this at a ghost and it will shock them into a human." Maddie smiled, "We could win the Nobel Peace Prize for this." She smiled, "It could bring ghosts back to life, reunite dead loved ones, and insure stable relations between ghosts and humans." Maddie smiled widely. Jack nodded.
"Man that's hot." Jack said. Maddie smiled.
"Thank you, here's a cookie." Maddie pulled a cookie off a baking sheet and then continued back to her work. Jack ate the cookie not commenting on the fact that it was blue.
Maddie continued to assemble the gun carefully then smiled plugging it into the wall to charge. Jack went about fixing breakfast and Maddie went down stairs picking a blob like ghost out of a container. She then ran some electricity through it and the ghost turned into a butterfly and flew off. Maddie smiled, it was nothing short of a scientific miracle.
Maddie frowned; it was a pity it took so long to charge up though. Maddie sighed, she'd have to fix that design flaw later but for now it served its purpose. Maddie turned to the happy ghost dog chewing on a bone and the blue man with the overalls. Maddie picked up the Box Ghost, who gave out a "beware" through his muzzle, then released him into the zone, if he was annoying dead, he'd be just as annoying alive and wasn't worth the trouble. Maddie then bent down and scrutinized the ghost dog for the first time in her life she could almost see it as a sentient creature… no matter in an hour or so it could be.
Danny came home to a yipping puppy with soft brown fur and the biggest puppy dog eyes in the world. Danny smiled and crouched down to pet the dog, Maddie smiled at her achievement, the dog was alive again. Danny laughed as the dog jumped on him and licked his face.
"You remind me of another puppy." Danny whispered then looked up at his mom, "We got a dog?" he asked, "I thought it was too dangerous to have pets." Danny said picking up the puppy happily, his parents wouldn't let him have pets because it was too dangerous with all their experimentation, the last pet he had had died, or so it seemed, because of a bad experiment.
"Well I suppose you can keep him, we'll need him anyway. Just make sure he doesn't get into the lab and pick up after him." Maddie smiled, she would need to keep an eye on the dog to monitor her experiment anyway.
"Alright!" Danny fist pumped then held the puppy above his head.
"What do you say Cujo, want to come check out your new home?" Danny asked, Maddie smiled at her son. Cujo yipped happily then licked Danny again.
"I think that's a yes." Danny laughed then set the puppy down going up the stairs with the dog at his heels. Maddie smiled then went downstairs polishing her new weapon.
Danny lazily drifting through the sky, school was over, the air was clear, there didn't seem to be any major enemies out and about, maybe the box ghost, but Danny bet his parents still had him in their custody. Danny smiled floating on his back then he leaned back as if diving into a pool and flipped over in a long lazy loop before taking off again skimming buildings and drifting through cars. All in all it was a peaceful night.
Danny landed softly on the top of the Ops center not quite ready to go inside and pretend he was asleep yet, like his parents would notice anyway. He could probably be gone for a month and they wouldn't notice unless Jazz said something. Danny smiled trying to make the image a funny one but he felt sad and shook his head dispelling the thoughts.
"Maybe I should go get a Nasty Burger and fries." Danny thought out loud. Then he shrugged, "Ah well… I guess I can always get some tomorrow. I mean it's no fun to go at night, there's no one to hang with." Danny leaned back against one of the many towers on the Ops center. He began humming to a song, "Lips Like Morphine" by Kill Hannah, he didn't mind the song, it was ok, and catchy, and Sam had introduced him to the band. Danny closed his eyes.
"I wonder if anyone would notice if I disappeared." Danny wondered briefly, Besides Sam, Tucker, or Jazz. He added mentally. Then he frowned.
"My own parents don't even notice I'm dead." Danny hung his head then laughed, "Maybe I'm feeling a bit to angsty tonight." Danny laughed out loud sitting up and bringing one knee up the other bent toward him. Danny draped his arm over the knee and laughed, "Who am I talking to anyway? Myself, that's crazy you know." Danny said, then he sighed.
"Hello… who ever is up there watching, and I'm guessing Clockwork is one of them… what happens now?" Danny asked, "I mean… I don't know what to do after this… should I let my parents know I'm dead? Would they care, or would they take me apart molecule by molecule?" Danny wondered. Then he sighed, "I'll have to figure something out." Danny said, "What's going to happen next?" he wondered leaning back again.
"This." A voice said. Danny gasped in shock whirling around to be met with his mother holding a gun.
"Oh…" Danny barely even got the chance to stand up before he was blasted off the roof. Danny tried to stand up but couldn't focus through the pain receptors firing all over his body. Danny screamed, this was almost as bad as the portal accident.
Danny tried to crawl away from the crater he'd made after falling off the Ops center, but couldn't move and could only moan in pain. His body spasmed, Danny wondered what the new weapon did and why he couldn't stop feeling pain. The cold in his chest drifted further away thought Danny felt like he should hold onto it.
Danny screamed again back arching eyes rolling up into his skull whites showing as the weapon affected him.
Maddie made it down to the ground level watching the ghost boy shriek, her eyes bright and curious as she watched him change. It was like watching the puppy just at a much higher degree.
The ghost boy's glow was being drained away crackles of acid green electricity surrounding his body. His flesh seemed to tan as he writhed in the street. His green eyes were slowly losing their glow as well becoming an incredible emerald colour. The boy continued to scream the screams slowly dying in his throat as the boy grew still. He didn't breathe, for a minute Maddie panicked and rushed over to the boy.
Danny took in a breath it burning his newly formed human lungs and he let out a sob as he continued to breath and it hurt. Danny figured this is what being born would feel like. Danny cried warm arms around him comforting him. Danny eventually calmed down falling asleep in the strong arms.
Maddie took the boy in here arms her motherly instincts kicking in. She realized that this boy had been a ghost moments before but now he was human, and in pain. Maddie gathered the boy into her arms and kissed his forehead gently in a motion that she'd used on her own son many times. The boy's unnatural white hair drifted across his eyes, but hung very humanly down. The glow that illuminated the hair to its unnatural silvery color gone.
The boy in her arms actually bore a remarkable resemblance to her baby boy now that she saw him up close and not as a ghost. Her heart broke knowing his parents didn't know or realize he was dead. She wanted to find them and give them a piece of her mind. She wondered if they even cared or if he was an orphan. Maddie shushed the boy's crying. The puppy to had yelped upon breathing with his new lungs as well. The boy in her arms was like a newborn in that manner. Maddie soothed him and tried to get him to calm down.
"Mom…" the boy cried not seeming to realize it. Maddie froze, but the boy was delirious and probably couldn't tell that the person holding him was not his mother. Maddie smiled, then again in a way she was, she'd given the boy a second chance at life hadn't she? The boy's jumpsuit was torn in a few places and charred from the blast but other than that it wasn't too messed up. The boy eventually quieted himself and fell asleep. Maddie pulled up and carried him into her house like she would a baby.
Maddie knocked on Danny's door. When she received no answer she opened it finding Danny gone. Maddie shrugged, he was probably with one of his friends. Maddie laid the now human Danny Phantom on the bed and changed him out of his jumpsuit, some of Danny's pajamas fitting Phantom perfectly. Phantom then snuggled into the warmth of the bed and Maddie brushed his white hair out of his face taking a seat on her son's bean bag to watch the sleeping former ghost like she had watched her own son when he was a baby. The boy didn't stir but continued to sleep Maddie's eyes drifted slowly shut.