"Hello everyone," a reporter stood as the main focus of the camera, holding a microphone, around him hundreds of people mulled around in the streets. "We're here in Amity Park, Illinois as the government organization known as The Guys In White, finally releases a public statement."
He raised his arm and the camera briefly panned over to show a group made up of mostly teenagers and young adults, holding signs supporting Danny Phantom. "After this organization sent out the nation wide arrest warrant for three fifteen year olds there has been much public outcry. Especially after these teenagers started releasing online videos claiming they are innocent of crimes, though not denying one of their group, Daniel Fenton/Phantom as not being completely human. As I'm sure most of you watching know, he claims to be something called a halfa, a half ghost and half human hybrid. Many argue about technical legal rights he has, since ecto-entities, ghosts, don't have any rights in our world so far."
"It's been a week since they've declared this teenager as a wanted entity, and now they have finally agreed to hold a press conference or public announcement of sorts, here in the centre of Amity Park. Everyone, especially Amity citizens, wait impatiently for them to start. Even I'm getting a little antsy out here." The reporter paused looking somewhere off to the side. "I believe they may be starting the conference right now."
The camera turned from the reporter showing a stage, well, more of a hastily built metal platform, standing slightly above the waiting civilians. Multiple GIW agents walked up onto it. A prominent looking agent standing centre stage, while the others on stage kept behind him, looking menacing with large weapons at their easy to reach disposal. The agent stood in the middle declared his presence to the crowd by tapping the microphone, which caused a horrendous screeching noise to blare through the speakers, practically everyone in the audience cringed.
One teenager in particular showed their dislike for the situation by flipping him off, several others joined in and yelled out a few insults before he even began talking.
"Citizens of Amity Park and the Untied States as a whole, I am Agent Alpha, or Agent A, of the GIW. I am here to say, we are here for your protection. These ecto-entities are malevolent and hostile, they are not sentient apart from following their obsessions monotonously after death. Ghosts are no longer human and no longer have any semblance to human consciousness, these beings must be put down for the safety of all humanity. We are a government organization designed to do just that.
"We fight them, we apprehend them, research these spectres, and we create better weapons to finish them off for good. It's what we do, and what we will continue to do, to protect all citizens of our nation."
Someone on the street shouted up to the agent, it was unclear from the cameras angle where exactly it came from. "What about Danny Fenton, Sam Manson, and Tucker Foley? They're from our community, they're our kids! You chase them ruthlessly yet have given no reason for their arrest warrants. I've seen Danny fight ghosts both as a ghost and as a human, heck come on guys, he's a Fenton. We all practically owe that fifteen year old our lives, and this is how we repay him?!"
Agent A glared down at the direction this comment had come from, at least he seemed to be doing so through his black sunglasses. "Daniel Fenton, Phantom, is a powerful ecto-entity who has proven his desire to harming humans in the past. Agent L is leading a team to track him down, as well as multiple other high standing operatives. It is our, the Guys In White's, biggest priority, we will have Phantom detained. Though some of you may still see him as such, this creature is no longer human. The ghost, and ecto energy was somehow combined with Daniel Fenton, who is long gone. We still are not certain of all the details of how this happened, but we're getting there, and we will track down any other fake humans hiding in our society."
"As for Sam Manson and Tucker Foley, we believe they are being controlled by this cruel ghost's tricks. They also may not realize this because they believe their friend Danny is still in there, which we're sorry to say is not true. When they are apprehended we will cure them of these thoughts and possession, then they will be released to live the rest of their lives. The government is taking precautions so no ghost will ever be able to corrupt teenagers of our nation in this manner ever again, and we at the Guys In White will make sure of it."
What seemed to be an actual media source finally dug their claws into the agent's defense. "Excuse me Agent A, but there was a stable point in the last question. Does the government have legal rights to send off an arrest warrant such as this? Besides the fact that Phantom is viewed by your organization as a threat?"
"Ecto-entities visiting our plane of existence are, in themselves, immediately against the law, and those entities are to be detained by us as soon as they are discovered. However in this case it is even more serious. Phantom has committed various crimes, that of which we have video evidence of, many times during his rampage here."
Agent A adjusted his hands held behind his back. "Phantom has attempted to kidnap Amity Park's previous mayor, Ernesto Montez, and if the citizens of Amity would recall he was then declared Public Enemy #1. Months later Phantom teamed up with a group of ghosts, helping to steal precious jewelry, money, and other items. This malevolent entity is also being charged on many accounts with destruction of public property, and evading arrest."
Another voice spoke from the crowd of curious humans "I've looked for their own comment at these times but could not find them. What do the Fentons have to say about this? They are ghost hunters after all, how do they feel about what happened to a member of their own family? It is, after all, public knowledge they've worked with your agency in the past."
Voices muttered worryingly throughout the spectators, the Fentons were, well, the Fentons. You could always find them, either if you follow the path of explosions or the trail of misery fudge at the worst of times, they never just disappeared.
Agent A smirked to himself, correcting his useless sunglasses atop of his nose. "To clarify, we no longer do business with them, and at the moment I wouldn't be so certain. You see, Jack and Maddie Fenton have been taken into government custody on suspicion of human experimentation."
Shocked gasps echoed through the streets but the indifferent agent showed them no mind, seemingly quite proud of himself. "Obviously this is very serious and given the evidence flying around, action needed to be taken. Therefore the Fenton's will not be available for comment anytime soon."
Confused and shocked exclamations swept through the crowd.
"WHAT?!"
"Human experimentation?"
"The Fentons- they're weird sure, but they'd never do something like this."
"Why would they do such a thing?"
"Evidence, you don't think…"
"Would they do that to their own son? They're quirky but to those guys family's really important."
"Mommy why don't they like Phantom? He's a hero."
"This is an outrage!"
"Phantom's an affront to nature!"
"But Phantom and the Fentons have saved our lives more then we can count, the government don't care about us! They left us for dead!"
Agent A continued, oblivious "There will be no further comments on this subject at the time, since many things are yet to be officially confirmed. But I will say that personally I hope these criminals will receive punishments level to their actions. Us at the Guys In White will be doing our absolute best to bring all of these convicts roaming around to justice, we will make sure they don't hurt anyone ever again."
Confused shatter continued, and more questions were shouted out to the stage.
A short video clip had been released and started trending on various sources soon after the GIW made their public announcements. It was taken down countless times but once it had been exposed to the internet practically no source, no matter how strong, could erase its existence. That's not to say the government didn't try its best.
In most cases, and in that of the original, the video starts facing a young adult with red hair and determined aqua eyes. Behind her, metal walls glistened in an eery green light, miscellaneous burn marks marked what used to be a laboratory and large containers that had seemed to hold green substances were left mostly shattered and spilled. The girl herself had a particularly nasty bruise on the left side of her face and various marks lining her cheek and outfit.
"Some may recognize me from our previous video of the AmityPark_Phanclub, where we declared the innocence of Danny Fenton, and in extension, Phantom. Today I'll be speaking on behalf of my family and many others on a similar subject. My name is Jazz Fenton and quite recently my parents, Jack and Maddie Fenton, have been arrested for the governments' claims of human experimentation."
Jazz gave the camera a bittersweet grin that didn't reach her eyes. "Now, I'm not sure if these accusations have been thought of from the status of my brother as a halfa and taken by giant leaps in assumptions of how it would be possible. But, most likely, their arrests have been demanded by the Guys In White and this was the only way to do them somewhat legally, though even that plan did not succeed.
"In the past our respectable government, or specifically the Guys In White, have attempted to steal our work and technology when trying to buy it didn't work. As most of you are probably aware, we have some of the best ghost hunting technology, inventions, and knowledge in the world. One of the crowning jewels of my parents' entire life's work, and something they are very eager to take, is the ghost portal."
She stood and walked towards the other side of the lab, the camera seemed to obediently hover after her. Gesturing with her hand, Jazz briefly glanced to what seemed to be hexagon shaped door on the wall. "This right here is a portal to our parallel dimension known as the Ghost Zone, the dimension where most ghosts originate from. The Guys In White do not have technology like this, or at least they wouldn't have until they copied designs from ours. We no longer see fit that they have access to our own considering what they attempted to do the previous time they were allowed control of it."
"The Guys In White vowed to destroy all ghosts and they then decided the best plan of action would be to destroy an entire dimension full of these sentient beings. Something I am certain the scientific community as a whole would be affronted by, considering they would not have been able to pose experiments into this new subject. Examples such as, matter altering abilities, the power sources of ectoplasm, and things like how humans can float in the Ghost Zone. If the Guys In White had succeeded in their plan, I'm sure the whole world would have hated them from the afterlife, since destroying the Ghost Zone would also backfire on us humans and destroy our dimension as well. We're certainly grateful that endeavour was stopped while it was ahead. Also, by ahead, I mean they already had a bomb about to be sent into the dimension."
Jazz took a calming breath, looking grim. "Now, I'll stop preaching about what's in the past and instead I'll talk about what's happening now. At this point in time the Guys In White will have announced somehow that my parents have been arrested, apparently under the warrants of human experimentation. This deed however was not done in conduct to their own laws and rights.
"As you can see from the destroyed lab around, our family was attacked, we were attacked by the Guys In White. A government organization sworn to protect us. I won't go completely into detail but basically when Mom and Dad asked what was happening and I asked if they had a warrant, they went off on us. It wasn't pretty, nor fair to us. They have arrested, more so abducted, my parents and I've barely managed to keep them off of our property. Which also wouldn't have been possible if our own ghost allies hadn't swooped in to help me at the last moment." The Fenton took a moment to look around the room as if she were reminiscing.
"I say this to the government, heck, I say this to the president. What are you allowing to happen out here? What games are you allowing the Guys In White to play as they flourish around destroying people's lives? Really at this point I can only really say," Jazz placed her fingertips together and stared unblinkingly into the camera.
"Fix our stupid country. Cause we're tired of trying to do it for you."
There was a pause as she placed her hands down and fiddled with a weapon on the belt of her hazmat suit.
"I apologize for being rude, but ignorance is no longer an excuse. I'm sure many, especially citizens of Amity Park, can and have brought up concerns about the Guys In White already. I've heard plenty of Casper High students wanting to get rid of the menace of an organization too, they have many thoughts on the subject." After flipping a couple of buttons machinery could be heard rumbling throughout the lab, the only visible difference being a sort of translucent green protection now seemed to lay imbedded in the walls
"So as I venture back into the Ghost Zone to try and pick up the pieces of my family and friend's lives, as well as my own, I really only want you all to consider one thing. Stop living in the past. The world is spinning and moving on without you when you do, things are constantly changing, and more information is newly available. Don't base your thoughts of an entire species off of the actions of a few and the outdated notions of scientists with what would not be considered viable theories.
"Stop putting all of your faith into an outdated description off something made with complete assumptions to make up for what we didn't know. We know now, and we must realize that this is what's happening. You must either accept it or be left behind, the decision is yours to make."
Pressing a red button behind her, the ghost portal opened behind the seventeen-year-old. She pulled up the hood on her blue hazmat suit, large red goggles shielded her eyes. The green light from the opposing dimension behind reflected off of them and made the Fenton label on her suit shine in the dimly lit room.
"Though there is one thing I can promise. The only time my brother ever lies is when he's protecting someone else."
The video ends as Jazz Fenton crosses out of view of the camera, the swirling green of the ghost portal keeps the cameras attention as the screen flickers into black.
AN: I hope you all enjoyed this chapter, for some reason I found it quite fun to write. Thank you all for the support in this, and I'm happy you all seem to actually enjoy my strange writing attempts. Until next time, bye.
Edited 06/25/2020