Tears That Fall Like Hail
[April 3 20XX] -26 hours before death
Everything was great! After 2 years of fighting ghosts and avoiding the ghost hunters, I had befriended them and started a brawl schedule which let me raise my grades back up to solid A's and B's, and the biggest change of all was after planning as many contingencies as possible, and had my friends on standby I had revealed my identity to Mom, Dad and Val... and they accepted me (though the tears they shed at the revelation of all the shots they fired at me and words they said left them a sobbing mess for hours), and after a big battle (and a LOT of therapy) we had gotten both Vlad and Dan to chill!
Vlad had somehow reconciled with Dani and Dan, Dani got officially (unofficially) adopted by the Fentons but Dan moved in with Vlad and started working on having a healthy relationship with him which calmed down his family obsession (though Vlad still is annoying it's no longer endangering anyone)
Dan (who after gaining a clone body looks to be 17-18) due to being a fusion of Vlad and I, he gained a fusion of our obsessions now he is protective of his family to the point of herding us like sheep dogs when stressed. It's kinda funny to watch this 6ft 8 tank of a man pick up Vlad from his villainy because it's past curfew (now if he would only stop doing the same to me when I'm doing hero work!)
Jazz started college early with a full ride primarily majoring in psychology, but also wants to get a major in ecto science, anthropology, and sociology so she can prove that ghosts are conscious and sentient beings with their own cultures... Knowing her and her tendency to overachieve she will do it in record time! Though I probably should get Dan to move with her just so she won't overwork herself (even if I have to fight Vlad more often)
Val helped with any new ghosts and started proper training so she would stop destroying property, Sam helps find places for the ghost fights so there will be less damage to property or people, and Tucker helped with scheduling and tech support for Val and I when we had to go fight a ghost who didn't get the memo
It was going great until they arrived.
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It was about 7 in the morning, when my template and I were playing tag at the nearby park, Jazz gave me the job of keeping him distracted while they got his 16th birthday party set up Dan baked him a 5-tiered cake (surprisingly he is REALLY good at baking!)
We went all out getting 3 big gifts he would love, one was a year's free pass to the biggest observatory/space exhibit in the area. The second was a spaceship that Vlad funded which was named after him and was set to launch sometime later this week. And finally, we had gotten him 4 collector's edition model rocketships he had been talking about for WEEKS (apparently one of them only had 100 models ever made. so apparently very rare!)
It was going to be a great time!
While he was chasing me his face made a sudden shift "WATCH OUT!" He shouted, as he launched himself at me at full speed, before I had a chance to ask any questions I heard the shots, Danny had took the brunt of the hit but it was strong enough to knock us to our butts, we didn't even have a chance to move as an ecto net had been launched and wrapped itself around us and sent a jolt of electricity through us. While in pain I was able to look up at who shot at us, it was the GIW?
Over the years they had gotten better at hunting and capturing ghosts, but after Vlad had chilled out he used his influence to get them disbanded, and even more confusing was that they shot at us as civilians, we weren't even ghosts! Why did they shoot us!?
Too many thoughts raced through my head as I was trying to find a way out as Danny was screaming for help when another jolt of electricity struck through us hitting our very cores as the world went black.
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It took us a while to get it all set up with the little stars and rockets hung up around the dining room, and we had a bit of an accident with some experiments that were left lying around.
Something was wrong I could feel it in my very bones, Danny and Dani were supposed to be home by now, I had called them 3 time now yet neither are picking up their phones.
Mom and Dad are not worried but Dan was getting ready to go out and grab them, when Tucker called us on the emergency cell that we had made in case something had happened.
It didn't even ring once before I picked it up "JAZZ! THE GIW ARE BACK, THEY HAVE DANNY AND DANI!!!"
I didn't even get to voice my thoughts when Dan had practically burst down the door running as mom and dad had raced to the Fenton-RV with Vlad in toe grabbing anything that could help on his way. "I already called Sam and Val, and am already tracking them, and am sending you their location"
"What happened?" I said as I finally snapped back to reality while getting into the RV. "They got shot in the middle of the park in their civilian forms, I think they found a way to track them as humans, I'm trying to hack them to find out how they did it, I'll report my findings."
My heart had practically stopped when the call ended, this is probably the fastest Dad had ever driven as their voices blurred into the background there was only one thing I could say as all possibilities flashed through my head "Please be ok..."
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2 hours in the park, 3 hours following the trail, 2 hours to come up with a plan, and 2 hours to get through security and fight off all of the agents blocking our path.
I can remember much while running through the solid white corridors and fluorescent lights, barely registered the crunch of bones, the screams of monsters (was it the agents or his own he would never know), barely stopped himself from destroying walls to not endanger his sib-, his... (he was dangling off the edge of a sanity, tears barely held back by the flood gates)
Then we found them, well what was left of them... and everything else was swallowed by black as he could only stare at them, as his blood shifted not knowing whether it's become as cold as ice or boil from his rage.
Dani had been cut open and destabilized, Danny somehow absorbed her core before it could be 'examined' by the doctors despite being heavily restrained and bolted onto the operating table, Danny on the other hand was not fully there barely able to respond when mo- Maddie was asking him questions trying to keep him conscious.
... They had cut into them as humans, they weren't even ghosts!!! yet, yet they had done this to them, THEY WERE ONLY KIDS GOD DAMNIT!!! ONE NEWLY 16 AND THE OTHER 2!!! (physically 14 though she may be)
The only thing I heard was screaming, all I felt was pain, all he could see was Danny being tortured and experimented on, how long was he hurting with no one to call to for help (or was that me? During a time no longer)
I barely registered that they had left the facility, that he stomped the bodies on the floor of enough force to fracture the supposedly ghost resisitant tiles, how we got shot at and even hurt
I barely registered how da- Jack was driving without saying a word, hands squeezing the wheel so hard it left indents of his fist.
I barely registered mo- Maddie as she tintively stitched up Danny, making sure he was still alive using them medical equipment they had just recently added to the Fenton RV
I barely registered Vlad firing the guns at our pursuers.
And I barely registered Jazz doing her best to calm me down from my disassociation brought out by my anger, grief, stress, and whatever other emotion is keeping me from tearing this world apart again, despite having been shot herself she focused her attentionon me.)
All I can remember it from that night was how empty I felt as we made it to the portal.
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I saw dad destroying the restraints, I saw Vlad stealing information before sending it to Tucker, I saw Mom holding me close to your her as she worked to keep me alive, I saw Jazz and Dan barely holding themselves together.
I heard the plan to blow up the portal behind them, and to destroy the GIW for good
I felt the floor as we got shot in our house, Dad taking the blast, I felt a kiss from a weeping mother and Father.
I smelt fire, blood and ash as the plan unfolded.
I tasted the ecto of the realm between.
And I sensed when time stood still when he granted us a moment of reprieve.
... Mom and dad weren't with us, they stayed behind to make sure that nothing was left, Vlad use the time granted to destroy his portal and all of his information after sending everything to Tucker, before falling to his knees screaming from emotions to stong to name.
My body being held gently by both Dan and Jazz as their tears reflected the myriad of emotion they either felt or repressed.
My last thought before everything faded was, a desperate call to my fraid to my family both blood and chosen. "Please don't leave..."
