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Jazz pulled her baby brother closer to her chest. Danny's body was already growing cold. Already… Jazz cried harder as she held the corpse.
"God Danny…" Jazz held her brother. How could this have happened. The look on his face was peaceful, which made Jazz cry all the harder. She wondered what would become of him… what would happen to them now. Crying Jazz pounded on Danny's chest, but every time she did new blood seeped out of the wounds and gashes. There was a large gash down his back where Jack and Maddie had carelessly pulled flesh aside to get a look at his spine, trying to get a sample of the energy that fired through those connections.
"Danny… please come back to me… please." Jazz begged. A whisper of a kiss brushed Jazz's cheek and she looked up. Danny stood there not Fenton or Phantom but a combination of the two. He smiled at Jazz kindly and kissed her forehead.
"Don't cry for me Jazz." Danny said softly then began to fade. His words only made Jazz cry harder. Pulling the corpse that had once been Danny Fenton Jazz laid him out in the kitchen then grabbed the defibrillator. Jazz waited for the paddles to charge then shocked her brother's body. Danny's corpse arched then fell flat. Jazz tried again, and again… then once more.
Growing desperate she figured she'd need a shock on a grander scale. Something that would shock him with enough energy to call back even his ghostly form…
Duh…
Jazz drug the body downstairs and unplugged the portal. Wincing she laid Danny among the wires zapping herself a bit in the process. Then kissing his forehead once she stepped out hiding behind a desk and she put the two ends of the plugs together. There was a giant blast of light, one that filled up the entire room. However, Jazz couldn't hear anything from inside the portal, this was her last chance… if this didn't work… Danny would be gone… and his body too fried to try again.
The blast continued the energy working up slowly there was a slight moaning sound and then…
A scream like nothing Jazz had ever heard or ever hoped to hear again came from the glowing hole in the wall. That single scream was filled with so much pain it didn't seem possible for a single body to contain it all. That scream echoed through the house and down the streets. That scream sounded like someone dying in the most horrible way possible. That scream returned the dead to life.
A figure stumbled out of the portal, black hazmat and white hair. Acid green eyes that burned with tears as the searched the room. The Phantom figure from beyond the grave stumbled and fell down two white ring forming to release the figure of his ghostly appearance. Danny shook and trembled and coughed. A few drops of blood falling to the ground. The boy now with black hair and blue eyes looked up at Jazz.
"I was dead… I… was dead…" eyes closing as Danny's body went limp Danny cried, "And you should have left me that way."
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Danny laughed with the mutants as they gorged themselves at a restraint. Danny's street cred had gone up a little for this. Storm and Logan watched.
"Don't you think Danny is a little weird?" Storm said fighting back her urge to freak out. Logan nodded.
"He's a good kid, but he's definitely hiding something. He smells off too." Logan said, "It's hard to tell what he is exactly." Logan was looking around as if he would see the professor. The kid freaked him out, not just what he could do with the seeing ghost but because he also had powers… yet somehow wasn't a mutant. What was he? Danny was talking to some people about the advanced mechanics of an ectogun. There were a few who seemed fascinated by the idea… but he kid did come from Amity Park.
"Have you ever seen a ghost?" someone asked. Danny laughed.
"Dude… if I had a penny for every ghost I've seen I'd be rich… now if I had a dollar for every ghost that has attacked me, then I'd be ready to buy the world." Danny smiled.
"You've been attacked by ghosts?" Bobby asked intrigued.
"Yeah, most of them are pretty lame, some of them were harder to beat though." Danny shrugged, "My parents are ghost hunters so I have some ghost hunting equipment." Danny nodded.
"Cool, like what?" Jones asked. Danny pulled out the Fenton Thermos from his waist band.
"Like this, it's the Fenton Thermos, it traps ghosts and contains them until I can dispose of them in the ghost zone, send them back where they came from." Danny explained.
"So do you fight ghosts?" Rogue asked. Danny shook his head.
"I don't, but Danny Phantom does." Danny responded.
"Yeah… I've heard of him, he's a ghost right?" Kitty asked, Danny nodded.
"Yeah… he protects the town, but no one really sees him as the hero, ok that's not true, but a lot of people don't see him as the hero, think his evil because he's a ghost." Danny sighed, "Even my parents wanted to tear him apart molecule by molecule." Danny quoted imitating his dad, "But…I guess that's just life… or his afterlife." Danny sighed he put the thermos back onto his belt.
"So what kind of powers do ghosts have?" Danny was asked, Danny thought.
"Well there is a wide range of powers that ghosts have depending on the ghost, some have control over objects, and others have control over an element. But then there are your standard powers, invisibility, intangibility, flying… and then the slightly higher level powers, ghost rays, ecto shields, some can even teleport. Then there is specially powers like Ember's music, Technus's control over technology, m… well Phantom's ghostly wail." He shrugged, "Then things like cryo kinesis, pyro kinesis, telekinesis, things not a lot of ghosts have but aren't really specific to one ghost. Then there are some ghosts who have similar, if not the same powers, then there is duplication, and some can even control minds and have psychic powers." Danny said, "Then there are objects of spectral power that enhance a ghosts own powers, like amulet of Aragon and the Ring of Rage and Crown of Fire." Danny said.
"That's pretty cool, you know a lot about ghosts." One of the younger mutants said.
"I should." Danny smiled enjoying a private joke.
"Why, are you a ghost?" someone asked. Danny's smile faded.
"I… uh… what? Do I look like a ghost?" Danny asked, "I just know a lot of ghosts." Danny said. Storm noticed Danny's nervousness about that and wondered, but he was alive wasn't he? He had a heartbeat and a pulse… Logan was following a similar train of thought. He thought back to what Danny said about being half dead though. If he was half dead… was it possible he was half ghost? That would explain his powers and the ice roses he managed to produce that still hadn't melted. Danny got up from the table.
The mutants dispersed heading to each store throwing their trash away. Danny paused in front of the Hot Topic. He hesitated before going in. Looking around he found a small coffin, it was filled with black silk roses. Danny turned the box over in his hands. Finally he went up to the front and paid for it then went to find a box to send it to Sam. He was dropping the box into the mail slot and sending it off when Logan rested his hand on the boy's shoulder.
"Hey kid." Logan said. Danny sighed.
"Can you just call me Danny?" he asked. Logan nodded.
"Danny… can we talk?" Logan asked, Danny nodded and followed the older male to a table near the Starbucks.
"So… ghosts huh?" Logan asked, Danny nodded.
"So you figured it out?" Danny asked. Logan nodded. Danny sighed, "Then you should probably know, my parents thought they were dissecting Danny Phantom not their only son." Danny sighed looking down at his hands, "I… I don't like to talk about it." Danny said. Logan nodded.
"I can imagine not." He said, "Why didn't you just tell us?" Logan asked, "We're mutants…"
"Exactly, you're mutants, you aren't ghosts, or half ghosts, you wouldn't get it, the best thing that could have happened was you wouldn't believe me and the worse you could have sold me to the guys in white. People fear what they don't understand, that's why humans are afraid of me, why would mutants be any different, I'm not one of you, I'm a freak that goes be on the freakiest."
Danny glared at the table, "Just because you say you understand doesn't mean you do, my own parents dissected me, and then they chased me down whether to rip me apart atom by atom, molecule by molecule, or to apologize I'll never know cuz I'm never going back there. I can't face it.
"And trust me when I tell you I'm am nearing the amount of sanity a person cannot have and still be considered sane. I just want to get away from it all, I don't want to be reminded of my past, I don't want to remember, I just want to be left alone." Danny finished with a huff, "So forgive me if I sound like a jerk, I'm trying to keep my sanity." Danny stood up, "I'll see you later."
Danny gripped his head, a horrible headache forming and a pain in his chest. He looked up and around the mall then wandered around the stores nodding to people who recognized him.
"Hey." Bobby put his hand on Danny shoulder, Danny was sitting on a park bench rubbing his temples.
"Oh… hi Bobby." Danny said. Bobby sat down beside the halfa.
"You ok?" Bobby asked, Danny shook his head.
"No… not really, but I'll get through it… somehow." Danny looked at his hands, an image of his the ghost portal… white gloves. Why had that memory decided to surface?
"You sure you're ok dude?" Bobby asked, Danny nodded looking up.
"I'm fine, ok… I'm good." Danny sighed, "I'm good." Bobby patted Danny on the back.
"Do you… you know… uh… want to talk?" Bobby asked feeling awkward. Danny laughed.
"Dude, I'm fine, I'll be ok, right? Don't worry about me." Danny said with an air of finality. Bobby nodded.
"Cool then."
BAM!
Danny and Bobby hit the ground, Danny the first one on his feet in a fighting stance looking around.
BOOM!
BAM!
BOOM!
Danny wobbled slightly as explosions rocked the building. Gritting his teeth he wobbled as the building did. The building slowly ground to a stop. Danny turned to Bobby.
"Help get everyone out. I hope we have enough time. Find everybody else and tell them to help." Danny started running off. "This is the top floor evacuate this one first, get everyone down to the lower levels and get them the hell out of here." Danny turned to the panicking people, "EVERYBODY GET OUT BEFORE THE BUILDING FALLS OVER, GET OUT, JUST GET!" Danny yelled going down the mall, he ran to customer service gripping the desk as he hit it.
"We need to get everyone out now, I'm sure there is a second bomb about to go off, don't you have an evacuation plan?" Danny demanded. The people as the desk were staring at him in shock, Danny groaned. The supports on the building groaned. Danny grabbed the microphone to the PA system.
"EVERYBODY GET THE HELL OUT, WE HAVE APPROXIMATLEY TWENTY FIVE MINUTES TILL THE NEXT ONE GOES OFF PROVIDED THE STRUCTURE DOESN'T GIVE OUT BEFORE THEN!"
"Thanks." Danny said to the people, "Now get out of here." The people started running, it was hectic, people scrambling for elevators, most smart enough to take the stairs and the escalators, a mass exodus as people swarmed out of the building. Danny searched around frantically searching for stragglers and children who got separated from parents. He did the whole thing as a human, his brain not even thinking about going ghosts as he cleared floor after floor getting people out of there and trying to get them a safe distance away. What pissed him off were the people who were still sitting around eating or the occasional person who was trying to make off with merchandise in the confusion. People were pulling out of parking garages and fleeing, the surround area was being cleared as well. Danny caught sight of a few of the mutants as they raced for safety helping those they could on the way. Danny ran back up and down the stairs searching for others as they fled.
Danny grabbed a little girl handing her to a man who grabbed the child as he raced down and out. Danny was getting nervous, sure a lot of the people had cleared out but there was still some there, Danny stopped taking a breath near a wall by the food court and escalators. Danny gripped the wall as he caught his breath. There was a creaking noise. Danny's eyes widened as he heard a faint pop, and some screams.
BOOM!
The second bomb went off, more screams, Danny tried to regain his balance as the entire mall tipped, Danny was shoved up against the wall as there was a crashing sound followed by more explosions. Danny saw Storm slipping down the floor as the mall tipped. Danny reached out and caught her hand pulling her up against the wall as the wall became the floor. Danny pulled her over the ledge as the building continued to creak and pop and fall over. After a minute or so it stopped, everything was at a forty five degree angle, Danny gripped the wall, Storm watched horrified as people went sliding down, Danny did his best to save them with Storm's help but it wasn't enough. Frustrated and tired Storm and Danny saved as many people as they could.
Danny heard the cries and moans of the others, screams and wails of pain and sadness. Danny gripped his head. They were dying, needlessly, people were dying. Danny cried, he couldn't save them all, he had tried, but he couldn't. He remembered the looks of horror and betrayal as people slipped past his grasp. Danny cried gripping his knees. Women cried for children, children for their mothers, husbands for their wives. They were dying, too many of them too save, he hadn't been fast enough. Danny wondered why he hadn't just gone ghost, held the building up or something. Why, why why! Danny cried.
"My baby… my baby, somebody find my baby." A woman screamed. Danny tried to stand up, more creaking, more screams as the building fell down lying on its side. Danny stood there shocked. The wall was now the only thing supporting them. The woman crying for her baby gripped Danny.
"Please my baby, he's in the bathroom, please…" Danny nodded.
"I'll get him." He promised, Storm looked over at Danny, Danny nodded to the woman and turned to the edge of the wall, with one last glance back he asked the woman.
"What's his name?" Danny asked, the woman sputtered.
"John." Danny nodded at her answer and broke into a run toward the open space of the mall, Storm ran after him, Danny jumped off the edge.
"GOIN' GHOST!" echoed through the mall, Storm jumped off right after Danny reaching out toward the black haired boy as there was a blinding flash of light. Storm began to fall, a white gloved hand grabbed her and the building continued to creak.
"I got you." Danny looked down at the woman before him. Storm gapped up at the boy, his hair now white, eyes glowing green, a white-ish aura around him.
"Danny?"
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