Opening File: Half-Ghost
A half-ghost or 'halfa' is a human whose genetic structure is infused with ectoplasm. Half-ghosts have the ability to change between human and ghost forms at will, and possess the same supernatural powers that ghosts have. Half-ghosts have access to ghost powers such as intangibility, invisibility, and flight. Half-ghosts can use the majority of their powers while in human form, but in order to use them to their full potential they must change into ghost form.
Half-ghosts have immunity to many effects due to their dual nature, including injuries that would be even fatal to normal humans.
Cloe File
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"You ever think you got it all? There may times when you think you do. Win a contest, get lots of money and you are set for life. What about times when you suddenly lose it all?" TOM said, closing the Half-Ghost file. "That point in life we all call rock bottom. You always know by instinct when you hit that point. But you know what? They say when you hit rock bottom there's nowhere to go but up."
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Vlad Masters had almost everything.
Money.
Fame.
And powers no one else except a handful had in the entire world.
Then he lost it all.
Vlad attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison alongside his best friend Jack Fenton and love interest Maddie. Vlad's friendship with Jack ended when a prototype ghost portal they had built overloaded and blasted Vlad in the face with ectoplasmic energy. Vlad was hospitalized with ecto-acne for years, which ruined his social life, his spirit, and his chances of winning Maddie. However, this accident also infused his DNA with ectoplasm, granting him the status of half-ghost and giving him ghostly powers.
After he recovered, he spent the next bitter 20 years honing and taking advantage of his newfound powers, and using them for his own personal gain in order to become rich and famous, all with the hope of eventually getting Maddie back. He possessed wealthy business tycoons to make them hand their companies over to him, took part in invisible insider stock market trading, and committed many invisible burglaries in order to amass his vast fortune. He had even acquired ghost henchmen that he sent to kill Jack Fenton after hearing of ghost sightings in Amity Park, only to be thwarted by Jack's son Danny after discovering their plan, but not their motive.
Despite their failure, Vlad invited the Fentons to a college reunion at his mansion in Wisconsin. However, it was really just part of a plot to humiliate Jack and to get his wife Maddie, the woman of his dreams, to leave him. Danny as well as his sister Jazz was dragged along, and Danny later confronted the ghost named 'Vlad Plasmius' when his ghost sense alerted him to his presence that night, and he discovered that he was easily outmatched by the stronger, more powerful ghost after he was knocked unconscious during their fight. Danny Phantom then unwillingly transformed back to Danny Fenton in front of him, and Vlad realized that he was Jack's son.
He remained tight-lipped about the fact until the day of the actual reunion. On the night of the reunion, Vlad casually asked Danny to go down to the lab to get a present for Jack, but when Danny did so, Skulker captured him with the 'spectral energy neutralizer.' Vlad entered and revealed to Danny who he was, ultimately giving Danny the chance to join up with him and help him further train and hone his powers in exchange for renouncing his father. Danny angrily declines, leaving Vlad to put the next phase of his plan into action.
He possessed Jack, made him cause chaos during the reunion to ruin his reputation, and then captured Maddie Fenton. Danny used the Fenton RV to stop him and ironically blackmailed Vlad by threatening to expose the both of them to his parents unless they call a truce, to which Vlad agreed, though he vowed to return. Since then Vlad had been a foil to Danny, attempting to gain more power in addition to breaking Danny's family apart, eventually taking drastic and desperate measures when he tried to create a clone of Danny by getting various samples of Danny's DNA secretly from their battles, in addition to his battles with Valerie Grey. He managed to spawn a few imperfect versions due to the lack of a mid-morph sample from Danny including Dani Phantom, a slightly younger, female version of Danny. He eventually used her in helping to capture Danny himself.
However, Danielle betrayed Vlad after seeing who her 'father' truly was, a man who didn't care at all about her and saw her as nothing more than a tool. Siding with her 'cousin' Danny, the two attacked Vlad, causing him to actually collide with the main, 'primary' clone, destroying him. Gravely upset over the loss of his most stable creation, Vlad was seconds away from killing Danielle if not for Danny's ghostly wail, Sam and Tucker's timely rescue, and Danielle's own insertion. After a series of pranks wars between him and Danny Vlad ran for mayor of Amity Park, using his ghost powers to overshadow the voters and make them choose him and the rivalry between him and Danny grew stronger than ever.
Upon Danielle's return, Vlad hired Valerie to capture her for him. With her under his possession once again, he planned to dissolve her entire body to study her remains in order to create a better, more functional clone. Danny, managing to gain help from a hesitant Valerie, stopped him in time, saved Dani's life and warned Vlad to leave her be with Valerie learning his identity and swearing vengeance against him for tricking her. Planning to destroy Danny Phantom once and for all, Vlad hires a new team of ghost hunters, the 'Masters' Blasters,' to replace and humiliate Danny, in what he hoped will cause the boy to stop his ghost hunting once and for all. When an asteroid got knocked towards Earth by Vlad's satellite from an accidental explosion, he revealed his dual identity to the world and promised to stop the asteroid from destroying Earth by making the asteroid intangible, in exchange for over 500-billion dollars and complete control over the entire world.
However, he later found out that the asteroid was composed of an anti-ghost element called Ecto-ranium, making it so all ghosts, including him, couldn't touch it, and therefore could not make it intangible. Unable to save the planet and return home, due to the fact that he would be forever hunted now that he had revealed his secret and threatened the whole planet, realizing that now more than ever he needed Jack's help, Vlad begged him to let him aboard the Fenton Rocket, but now knowing of Vlad's true nature and realizing that the Vlad Masters he knew is gone, Jack shunned his former friend by abandoning Vlad in space, dooming him to eternally roam the universe alone. That was the last thing he remembered before waking up in an underground lab with Dani and Skulker who immediately attacked him, accusing him of capturing them while fighting an unknown human with powers he had never seen before but Vlad had little time to think about what was going on.
It was likely when he was knocked out he was captured by Ghost Hunters for experimentation and he quickly escaped the lab. He knew it would be a matter of time before he was hunted down and captured again by the entire world that would be out to get him for the Dis-asteroid and for trying to blackmail the entire world. So without even stopping Vlad flew up into the sky, leaving the atmosphere and coming into orbit of the planet.
"I need to hurry before more ghost hunters track me down." Vlad said as he looked around, considering himself lucky that more hadn't come to capture him.
As he was about to move he spotted something hovering above the planet. It looked to be something right out of science fiction and it was a bizarre object to behold, even for him.
"A giant green space hand…It looks like something Jack showed me out of some sci-fi show back in college." Vlad said, staring at the giant hand.
The metal hull suggested it was a space ship of some kind, perhaps even alien but he was seriously confused at who would design and build a ship to look like a hand.
"Perhaps the recent asteroid and the planet becoming intangible actually garnered attention from…Actual aliens." Vlad muttered out loud to himself.
Perhaps he could take advantage.
A chance to find a new home on a new world where he wouldn't be hunted. Even if these aliens wouldn't take kindly to a being like him he could use his powers to hide himself among them and see if he could find sanctuary. It was a shot in the dark though and he knew it but he was out of options. Even if his ghost form could allow him to survive in space he couldn't bear the thought of wandering it alone, forever.
A world where he was completely alone and unable to do anything but exist.
Even for a ghost that was a fate too cruel.
So he decided he would see who was on that ship and if they could help him. He flew towards the ship and made himself intangible, slipping onto the ship.
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Peridot perked up as the scanners detected a strange energy reading appearing on the ship. "Unknown energy signature...Intruder alert!"
Xxx
C0-N1Y, better known as Connie had been trained to fight like every other organic born on Homeworld.
So when she saw Gem Rebels out of their cells she did the only reasonable thing she could do.
"DON'T MOVE!" Connie pulled out her sword, holding in both hands and assuming a ready stance that she had known since she was perhaps only four.
"She's a human?" Steven asked, having only just realized this fact.
"She must be a descendant." Garnet whispered.
"WHERE ARE THEY?!"
From behind the Crystal Gems came Jasper, looking even more enraged than ever, especially when she saw the Gems.
"Jasper!" Connie called out.
"This is getting annoying!" Jasper growled.
Garnet quickly slid out and stood between Jasper and the other Gems. "I'll handle her. You all get to the bridge."
"Right!" Pearl nodded.
"That will not happen!" Connie said, getting ready to attack.
"Listen." Steven stepped forward. "We don't want to hurt you."
"Then get back in your cell!" Connie said, making the first move and swinging her sword at Steven.
Amethyst lashed out her whip but Connie stopped and slashed the whip in half. "Hey!"
Connie quickly settled into another stance, raising her sword up and holding in both hands, ready to defend herself.
"An impressive stance." Pearl admitted out loud.
She easily knew this girl was likely a descendant of the Earthlings abducted by Pink Diamond just before the Rebellion had started. When the Diamonds learned that the Earth organics could fight the Grimm, even more effectively than Gems since somehow organics didn't suffer from the same weakness towards the Dark Substance that Gems did. Pink Diamond began abducting Humans, Faunus and Mobians to understand their power. After the war ended and Homeworld was driven off Earth Rose and the surviving Crystal Gems had no way of reaching the abducted organics to save them.
Pearl didn't think that Homeworld would actually keep the organics they abducted, let alone train them to fight and even allow them accompany other Gems on mission.
"Vidalia?" Pearl asked.
"I'm on it." Vidalia stepped forward, brandishing her Rainbow Graffiti.
Connie readied herself, looking away from Vidalia's eyes, remembering her fight with Jasper.
"You got a good stance kid and you're smart to look away." Vidalia twirled her Rainbow Graffiti. "But that won't be enough."
"Wait! She's human!" Steven called out.
He didn't understand why there was a human on the ship and helping Jasper and Peridot but he knew they couldn't hurt her.
"She'll be all right." Pearl pulled Steven with her as she and Amethyst rushed past them towards the bridge.
"I don't pick on kids." Vidalia said as she and Connie stared each other down. "So let's make this quick."
Jasper growled as she and Garnet circled each other like predators waiting to pounce. "This time I plan on shattering one or both of you just to make sure you don't escape again."
Garnet smirked. "Back on the beach you said you knew who I was."
"What of it?"
"I just think you might have a missed a thing."
"And that is?"
Garnet brought up a hand.
This is Garnet.
Garnet held her hand over her chest.
Back together.
She clenched it into a fist.
And I'm never going down at the hands of the likes of you because I'm so much better.
She pointed at Jasper and then at herself with her thumb.
And every part of me is saying 'Go get her'.
Jasper narrowed her eyes, glaring at Garnet as she sang.
The two of us ain't gonna follow your rules.
Garnet and Jasper circled each other, the two of them never noticing the invisible Vlad Plasmius slipping into the room to watch.
Come at me without any of your fancy tools.
Jasper brought out her Gem Destabilizer.
Let's go, just me and you.
Having enough of her singing Jasper lunges at Garnet.
Let's go, just one on two.
Garnet readies herself, snapping her fingers in front of her visor.
Go ahead and try and hit me if you're able.
They started fighting with Garnet mostly dodging Jasper's blows.
Can't you see that my relationship is stable?
Jasper swiped at Garnet with her Destablizer but Garnet kept dodging.
I can see you hate the way we intermingle.
Garnet jumped over a strike from Jasper, adopting a thinking pose.
But I think you're just mad 'cause you're single.
As Jasper stabbed the Destablizer Garnet continued to dodge.
And you're not gonna stop what we made together.
Garnet ducked under another stab and kicked the Destablizer out of Jasper's hand.
We are gonna stay like this forever.
She then jumped to her feet and caught the Destablizer.
If you break us apart, we'll just come back newer.
She quickly broke it apart and then summoned her gauntlets while Jasper summoned her Crash Helmet.
And we'll always be twice the gem that you are.
While Garnet sang the chorus Steven, Amethyst, and Pearl headed into the control room where Peridot was at the controls.
I am made
Peridot spun around in her chair, looking at the Crystal Gems in shock at how they easily escaped their cells.
O-o-o-o-of
She reached over and pulled out a Gem Destablizer as Steven charged at her.
Lo-o-o-o-ove.
She slashed the Destablizer at Steven who caught it with both hands, his human half resisting its affect.
O-o-o-o-of
Steven broke Peridot's Gem Destabilizer then Amethyst tied quickly Peridot with her whip.
Garnet and Jasper continue fighting, with many more hits actually landing.
Lo-o-o-o-ove.
"Don't touch that! You clods don't know what you're doing!" Peridot shouted as Amethyst kept her down.
Amethyst looked over her shoulder with a smile. "You got this, Pearl!"
"Okay, ship. Turn us around!" Pearl reached into the ships control panel, her eyes flash with lines of data.
Steven glanced at the ship cam and saw Garnet and Jasper fighting while Connie was slashing at Vidalia who easily blocked or parried her sword strikes.
Lo-o-o-o-ove.
Garnet caught Jasper and threw her up into the glass ceiling which cracked from the impact.
Lo-o-o-o-ove.
Jasper then spin dived at Garnet and causing both of them to fall through the deck and into the ship's engine room.
This is who we are.
Garnet was face down on the floor, obviously buffeted by Jasper's last attack.
This is who I am.
She still smiled as Jasper landed a few foot from her.
And if you think you can stop me,
Jasper stared down at Garnet with a confident grin, obviously believing she was about to win.
Then you need to think again.
Garnet slowly stood up.
'Cause I am a feeling,
Garnet summoned her gauntlets, ready to fight again.
And I will never end,
She and Jasper stood ready right in front of the power core of the ship.
And I won't let you hurt my planet,
Jasper grinned manically.
And I won't let you hurt my friends.
This time Garnet started the fight, charging at Jasper.
Go ahead and try and hit me if you're able.
The two Gems fought again with Garnet once again dodging most of Jasper's blows.
Can't you see that my relationship is stable?
Garnet finally found an opening and slammed her gauntlets into Jasper's helmet, shattering her visor.
I know you think I'm not something you're afraid of,
Jasper glared hatefully at Garnet and curled herself into a ball, preforming a spin dash that launched at Garnet.
'Cause you think that you've seen what I'm made of.
Garnet swiftly dodged Jasper who flew past her and slammed into the wall.
But I am even more than the two of them.
Jasper shot off the wall and aimed at Garnet again who dodged.
Everything they care about is what I am.
Garnet kept a close eye on Jasper, waiting for the right second.
I am their fury. I am their patience.
Jasper shot straight at Garnet who caught her.
I am a conversation.
Twisting her body Garnet threw Jasper over her shoulder.
I am made O-o-o-o-of
Jasper could only look with widened eyes as she was slammed into the ship's power core.
Lo-o-o-o-ove.
Jasper's body was electrocuted just before the core exploded.
O-o-o-o-of
Steven, Peridot, Amethyst, and Pearl were jostled by the explosion.
And it's stronger than you.
Garnet ran out of the engine room as it exploded.
L-o-o-o-ove.
As the ship rapidly descended towards Earth Garnet ran down the hallway towards the control room while still singing. Connie noticed the ship was falling to Earth and did the only thing she had been trained to do in a situation like this. She ran to the nearest wall and slammed her palm on it. The wall opened up and activated an Escape Pod that she slipped into.
Vidalia had no time to stop her as the pod shot from the ship and fell to Earth.
O-o-o-o-of
Peridot crawls away, hitting her head against the deck to activate an Escape Pod, which she then escaped towards Earth on.
L-o-o-o-ove.
Amethyst jumped to try and stop Peridot but failed, falling flat on the ground.
And it's stronger than you.
Steven, Amethyst, and Pearl looked out the window as the ship continues its freefall just as Garnet entered the control bridge. "Garnet!"
"This ship is going down!" Garnet said quickly.
"What about Lapis and Vidalia?" Steven cried.
"There's no time!"
"Here I am!" Vidalia slipped onto the bridge behind Garnet.
Lo-o-o-o-ove.
Lapis looked forlorn in her cell as she curled herself up.
O-o-o-o-of
The ship landed on the hill where the Crystal Temple was and exploded.
Lo-o-o-o-ove.
Lion came running down the beach and blasted the rubble, revealing Steven, Vidalia and the Crystal Gems in Steven's bubble.
And it's stronger than you.
"Nice one." Garnet said as they all stood up.
"Vidalia, what happened to the girl?" Steven quickly asked.
Vidalia shrugged. "She hopped into an escape pod so she's probably all right."
Before Steven could ask another question a hand reached up through the rubble and a second later Jasper emerged from the burning wreckage of the ship.
"Ugh! Auh..." She fell to her knees, glaring at the Gems, specifically Garnet. "Don't think you've won. You only beat me 'cause you're a fusion! If I had someone to fuse with I'd-"
She stopped as the rubble shifted near her.
"Huh?"
Lapis emerged from the rubble nearby. "Ugh!"
Lapis fell to her hands and knees and but got up and attempted to flee by flying, but Jasper grabbed her leg. "Come here, brat! Aw, don't fly off so soon."
"Lapis!" Steven tried to run over to Lapis, but Pearl and Amethyst stopped him.
Jasper held Lapis up by her arm. "Lapis, listen, fuse with me!"
Lapis stared at Jasper's face, eyes going wide. "What?!"
"How long did they keep you trapped here on this miserable hunk of rock?" Jasper asked as she dropped Lapis. "These Gems, they're traitors to their Homeworld. They kept you prisoner. They used you. This is your chance to take revenge!"Jasper said, staring at Lapis with a demented look in her eyes. "Come on, just say yes."
"Lapis, don't do it!" Steven begged.
Lapis shared a look with Steven before looking back at Jasper with a solemn look as she offered her hand to Jasper who smiled and grabbed Lapis' hand.
"Noooooo!" Steven shouted in horror but could nothing but watch.
Jasper and Lapis danced and turned into an amorphous white blob of energy, just after Jasper took the chance to grin manically at the Crystal Gems. The energy soon formed into a massive shape, its features becoming clearer and sharper until a brand new Gem was formed. It was a massive Gem possessing six arms, of which the lower four functioned as legs. She had four eyes with light green irises and pointed teeth.
She had wavy pale-green hair, styled in a star, is a short bob like Lapis', but wild and frizzy like Jasper's. Her skin was turquoise with dark green stripes, and its pattern is similar to Jasper's. She had two torsos joined, similar to a Centaur. Her upper torso and arms were longer and more slender while her lower torso and four limbs were more muscular.
The upper half of her outfit, which was a deep-green and greenish-black stretched halter top, had a pattern like Lapis' suit with a neckline like Jasper's while its lower half was a greenish-black "uniform" similar to Jasper's with a V-neck 'collar' that connected to form a Yellow Diamond insignia, serving as a waistband for her upper torso.
The new Gem raised her arm, summoning an arm made of water from the ocean. Suddenly, the arm grabbed her arm and becomes a shackle.
"Huh?" The fusion gaped as another arm emerged from the ocean and took the fusion's other arm, also becoming a shackle. "What?"
More water chains appeared and wrapped around Gem fusion's torso and neck.
"Ughh!"
The water then started dragging the giant Gem into the ocean.
"What are you doing?!" The fusion shouted in Jasper's voice before speaking with Lapis' voice. "I'm done being everyone's prisoner. Now you're my prisoner!"
Two more water-arms grabbed her back legs.
"And I'm never letting you go!"
The arms pulled the fusion into the water until only her face is visible which briefly split into Lapis's and Jasper's.
"Lapis!" Steven shouted.
"Let's stay on this miserable planet... together!" The Gem fusion created by Jasper and Lapis declared as they disappeared into the ocean.
The Crystal Gems could only stare in stunned silence before Garnet finally spoke. "Yikes. They are really bad for each other."
Not too far away from them Vlad Plasmius had watched everything, having used his intangibility and invisibility to remain unseen and unaffected by the crash. He had seen the fight and the strange even where the two colored woman fused into some sort of monster. It was obvious that with the exception of the blond haired woman and the boy none of them were human.
So if they were not human what were they?
And why hadn't he heard of anything like them before?
They could be a great help to him but he knew next to nothing about them and it was unlikely they knew anything about him given his worldwide reputation. He was taking a risk staying here but maybe that creature that had been pulled into the ocean could be of great help to him. Deciding he had nothing left to lose he flew into the ocean, remaining invisible to ensure he wasn't spotted and dove after the giant monster.
Garnet twitched and stared at the water. 'Something else was here. I know I sensed something there and whatever it was just went into the water.'
Something else was going on and Garnet wasn't sure what to make of it.
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Vlad Plasmius was not the only one who had been watching.
"How interesting." The shadowed being said before vanishing into the ground and a second later it reappeared in a very familiar location.
Sammael smirked, watching as the form of the being appeared before him. "I take it you were given quite the show."
"Much more than expected." The shadow said, regarding Sammael with an amused look in its glowing eyes. "It seems one of Van Kleiss' runaways appeared on the ship and is now chasing after the fusion."
"This is turning out to be more entertaining than I anticipated. At the very least we can now anticipate what this one will do." Sammael mused, a chuckle slipping out. "And in the meantime our world has a few more visitors to entertain."
"A Gem Fusion, one more Gem and a Human apparently from the Gem Homeworld. I am tracking the two pods as we speak."
"I suppose we should consider we are wasting time and resources looking out for a couple of Gems and a single Human given that there are more important things that should garner our attention." Sammael admitted. "But on the other hand this is far too entertaining to give up. I am curious to see how this will develop."
"Do you wish Beach City placed under surveillance?"
"For now but it won't be a priority. We cannot lose focus in our goals. I imagine Mandy is close to hers."
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Mandy stood outside the Mystery Shack, peering inside and knowing only one person was there. It was almost sad, considering how easy this would be.
"Going somewhere?"
Mandy spun around as Pacifica Northwest slipped out of the bushes behind her. "Impressive. You eliminated anything that would have allowed me to sense you until now."
"The perks of being me." Pacifica said as her eyes flashed. "Greetings…Fallen."
"Greetings…Puppet."