3And here is where secrets come to light.
Chapter 3 truths come to light
Mentally cursing themselves the group of 8 allowed the 2 soldiers to line them up on their knees.
The soldier went up to Tess and scanned her.
"Clean."
Then Joel.
"Clean."
Mindy.
"Clean."
Dave.
"Clean."
Then he came up to Ellie, who was sweating bullets. Before the soldier could scan her she took out her knife and stabbed him. Danny took out the other guy but Joel saw the scanner.
Immediately he pinned Ellie to the wall.
"She set us up! We've been carrying an infected child!" he said.
"Actually you've been carrying 2 and neither have turned despite being bit 3 weeks ago." Mindy said ads Cat and Ellie pulled their sleeves u to reveal scabbed over bite marks.
"How is that possible?" Tess said the age of the injuries was clear. Cat seemed to have retreated into a crouch, she was terrified.
"We don't know." Ellie said. "Me a friend of mine and Cat snuck out of school one day and were attacked by infected, we were bit and we just sat around waiting. My friend turned, we put out her lights but we kept waiting, we waited for days and nothing happened, no ring of light, no increased aggression, no nothing." Joel scanned Dani and Danny.
"What about you 2? You have a higher energy signature than any infected I've ever seen." Danny sighed
"How old are you?"
"48."
"Huh well I should be 36. She should be about 20." Danny admitted.
"What?"
"Ever heard of Danny Phantom?"
"Heck yeah, the guys some kind of super hero from Illinois, I hear that those that believe he is still around somewhere have formed a sort of church."
"Yeah well he is me."
"What!" Joel and Tess yelled at once. The kids just looked between them.
"Back in 02 when I was 5 I was told, well you remember phantoms disease?" Danny asked.
"Yeah." Joel replied.
"Wait, what's phantoms disease?" Ellie asked, curious.
"A horrible disease that invaded its victims and slowly killed them one cell at a time, paralyzes you eventually after months, if not years of torment, and then kills you. Even then it is not happy until you are nought but a skeleton." Joel explained.
"Yeah well I was patient zero for that." Danny said. "But I was a serious child genius and I created a very powerful serum called the Phantom serum, something that was stolen and used to infect the entire planet, this is part of what caused this whole mess."
"What!?" Joel exclaimed.
"Let me finish." Danny explained. "With my Powers I became Danny Phantom. I, indeed we all became an immortal half ghost creature called a Halfa. Anyway 10 years later my enemy Vlad Plasmius created Dani as an attempt to make his own me. Eventually she accepted me as her dad and we started working together."
"A bit later we learnt of a big ghost signature outside Boston." Dani added.
"It was a trap; we were flanked by an army of skeleton ghost and a massive group of ghost hunters. We were forced together when a stray shot caught the shoulder strap holding my Fenton thermos, the device I used to capture ghosts, and it switched to chameleon mode and captured us. After this it vanished into the building. The device was designed to slow time for its occupants to a year a second. 20 seconds later the lid was torn off and we were spat out. We found ourselves out here not to far away and we used one of these tunnels to sneak into the city where we started investigating. Almost immediately I recognised that the 'infection' was related to the Phantom serum. This led me to deduce that the whole ghost army thing was a trap by one of my enemies that knew about it. More investigation told me who it actually was."
"You know who's responsible for all this horror all these 20 years?" Joel asked.
"The Dark Phantom." Danny said. Ellie and Cat shivered.
"Sounds dangerous." Ellie said.
"He is." Danny said sudden hatred infused into his tone. "He is the embodiment of darkness, fear and evil. Literally when someone dies violently their ghost releases dark energy with ecto energy and over the years, particularly during the two world wars."
"World wars?" Ellie said. Danny looked at the 4 kids he and Dani had teamed up with. He sighed and looked down.
"No one even cared about telling you these things." He muttered. Tess and Joel were shocked to. "Well anyway eventually that energy became an incredibly powerful ghost. One of his Powers is that he can overwhelm weaker ghosts. They are transformed into brutal monsters. I believe you guys call them 'bloaters'."
"But why does it take so long?" Tess asked.
"Because they are fighting it, heck you guys are fighting it." Danny said.
"What?" Joel asked.
"Halfas like us; we have a sort of split personality thing." Danny explained. "Well it's not like you have 2 people in your head but your ghost half is personified but you are essentially the same person inside. Before you turn you ghost self is trying to prevent you from transforming as much as possible. Once you can't fight anymore and you transform you work together to weaken the creature they have become. We will talk more on the move, the solders are coming."
With that they started running into the undergrowth.
"How large is this guys range?" Joel asked.
"Not as far as this, he has a satellite array in orbit transmitting his Powers across the globe, we take them out he will permanently loose control of all the infected."
"What about dragons?" Ellie said. "Marlene mentioned dragon attacks in the past."
"Dragons aren't real." Joel said.
"Actually they are. When I was 3, all the way back in 2000, I hatched and raised a dragon called a night fury. They live up in the former barbaric archipelago; it's to cold for anyone to investigate. All the other dragons live in a nest under Antarctica I guess Dan brought in a new alpha down there. Skyfire, my night fury ally is the alpha of the night furies and has been holed up at the nest for the last 20 years, he was ecstatic to hear from me, telepathically speaking." Danny added.
"Wait I can hear more soldiers."
After a high threat area the gang wound up underground, at which point Joel, Tess, Danny and Dani discovered something disheartening, no one was teaching these kids to swim, half their group were stuck against water.
"So why doesn't this dark Phantom just take control of the infected?" Joel asked.
"He is using you as a sick form of entertainment. That's why we're keeping a low profile, he can't know we're back till I can spring my plan." Danny spat before he paused. "Wait."
"I know this place." Dani said.
"This is where we woke up." Danny said. He walked over to a pile of rebar. He pulled out a crushed high tech thermos. "Here's our old prison." He muttered. Then he saw something. "Oh yes!" he exclaimed pulling out a silver briefcase. He pulled it apart and then reassembled it as a high tech gun before a shoulder strap was wrapped round him. (Think Kevin's gun from the ultimate enemy from Ben 10 ultimate alien.) "I love this gun, it's a work of art." He muttered. "Let's move out."
And that's a wrap. And if anyone in the homosexual community is insulted by my suggestion in chapter 1 that Ellie might be bisexual, I just feel that the initial game does suggest that she could have an interest in boys while the left behind DLC confirms that she is interested in at least one girl so it is just a suggestion, I mean no offence. Also if you were unaware me using the design of Kevin's gun from Ben 10 is not the only connection it would have if this was actually made as, as fans May know, Ellie's voice actress is also the voice of Ben 10 supporting character Gwen Tennyson.
Next chapter we will see a battle between an armed Joel, Tess and Danny and the infected. See you then.
