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Post by Fateful on Jan 2, 2017 20:41:39 GMT -5
Danielle returned to the ground and crossed her arms, glancing at Danny, who she was sure likely had an idea of what to do. Walker came to them for help, so it likely meant he needed it and that they needed to do this together. There was no way something like this was a trap. "Well, then wouldn't we just have to protect the authority figures in the city?"
"It's not that simple with him." Sam replied. "In his journals, he picks them in a variety of ways, jealousy, envy, hate... It's not only people in positions of power that are taken by him, but from what I've read of his journals he also takes those who suspected him, as he captured a friend who discovered the place he took his victims right after he'd killed the last one and immediately had to kidnap three more to keep his numbers even and he kept this man alive longer than any other since he just finished killing and wasn't ready to kill at that moment. If the police commissioner was taken, it means that the city lied about his vacation to cover up that he's missing. And he's been missing for almost two weeks. We don't know how many victims he already has or where he is."
Danielle sat on the edge of the couch. "That doesn't sound like an easy person to find. Should Danny and I go fly around and see if we can find out where he is?"
Sam shook her head. "No, that's not going to be effective. I can do some research and see where there are empty places in Amity Park, buildings and things like that, especially construction zones." Then she glanced toward Danny. "Danny? Do... you think you should ask Vlad if he's noticed anything?" While Vlad wasn't Mayor anymore, there was still a chance one of his cameras caught something or he noticed something.
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Post by nyrax on Jan 3, 2017 21:59:26 GMT -5
"I can help Sam with the search, look for areas that don't have power or don't have valid owners. We'll need to narrow things down as much as we can" Tucker contributed from where he sat. They had faced ghosts that were evil before, but this was...something else. Skulker had constantly threatened to skin Danny or mount his corpse on the wall like a trophy, but this Jhin ghost was actually hurting real people. It was the kind of thing that made Tucker take this immediately seriously.
Danny hated going to Vlad for anything. There was always some sort of price that had to be paid, a favor owed. As much as Danny hated the idea though, what else could they do? IF the police commissioner was in danger, they were playing a time game. As soon as Jhin found three more victims, they likely wouldn't last long. "Yeah...I'll go to Vlad's and see if he can provide any useful information. Vlad enjoys knowing everyone and everything. Perhaps he knows more about Jhin that can help narrow the search as well"
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Post by Fateful on Jan 3, 2017 22:07:23 GMT -5
Sam knew that the price owed to Vlad was always something, but it had been a while since they had seriously heard from him and fought with Danny, so maybe something had changed in the older man's head. Still, she wanted something to come of this and when it came to knowing about all things ghost and the goings on in Amity Park, Vlad was the expert, as sick as that was. "I think Danielle should go with Walker or stay with us."
"Yeah, I'm not going with Danny." She replied, looking toward Walker. "I'll go with you and help you look." Then she paused. "Are we doing this ghost or mortal style?" Part of her wondered about what Walker looked like, since she had never actually seem him, just heard about him here and there. A teenage girl with a cop wouldn't be that strange, especially considering Danielle's past. They could get through whatever either way, but they could definitely cover more ground flying.
Before they left, Sam hooked them up with some Fenton phones that Tucker had reprogrammed slightly so that they could talk like a group call that had a range anywhere with cell service, but he had altered the frequency so that it couldn't be tapped. So far, it worked extremely well.
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Vlad's manor was empty. Well, void of people. While his ghost portal was sealed, the door had been slightly damaged before it was locked. The lab was a mess, considering how meticulous Vlad usually was with his things. A battle happened in the lab and in a good portion of the subsection of his home, which was the entire length of his mansion. No attempt was made to clean it up and the build up of mail showed it had been quite some time since Vlad been to this home.
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Post by nyrax on Jan 3, 2017 22:23:59 GMT -5
Walker agreed to this plan, deciding to head back and place this human back in his bed. That way the cop would think he slept for the past several hours, instead of randomly feeling like he had blacked out. Walker had operated in the human world a few times, sometimes even to capture Danny. He and his men were quite organized and did a better job than most ghosts at going unnoticed. As Walker flew back he saw where Danielle was waiting for him. "How curious, another halfa" Walker remarked as he looked over the girl and felt the energy that she was able to generate. Walker had seen enough ghosts pass by to sense power of every kind. This girl was almost exactly like Danny.
"How did you gain your power girl?"
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Danny slowly floated through the manor, trying to figure out what was going on here. Something was wrong, very wrong. Danny wasn't sure if he had ever felt more unnerved in this place before. For Vlad to be nowhere while his home was in such a state was unheard of. "Guys, something isn't right here" Danny said after Sam picked up the phone and put it on speaker. "Vlad isn't here, and his place looks trashed like he's been training too hard or someone attacked him. It looks like no one's been here in days"
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Post by Fateful on Jan 3, 2017 22:33:08 GMT -5
Danielle hung out with Tucker and Sam while she waited for Walker, which was to say, she mostly hovered over them and asked questions about Walker. They were busy, but answered her and treated her much the same as they did Danny in situations like these, which Danielle noticed happened quite often. Danny and Danielle were partially good about getting things done, but when it came to research, Danny wasn't much help and Danielle didn't offer.
When Walker returned, Danielle transformed and floated above the ground. "Lead the way."
As they flew, she glanced toward Walker. "I was... created." She answered. "I'm a clone of Danny. I was created by Plasmius in a complicated and uninteresting way, but I was the only clone to have sentience, so I survived when the others melted into ectoplasm and was eventually stabilized by some Fenton invention." She wondered what she could tell Walker, but it wasn't as if he would tell anyone. He knew Danny's secret and hadn't outed him to the humans so that meant something, she assumed.
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Sam tensed at the idea of Vlad being unavailable, especially with what they had been told. It made her stomach turn and Tucker would be able to see how physically uncomfortable she looked at the idea of this. "That... makes things worse." She replied. Sam and Tucker had left Danny's house and gone to hers since it's where her laptop was and most of her books. She pulled a binder out of her closet, which was a printed PDF of a book that was likely the journal she had been talking about. She tossed it on the bed and then grabbed a notebook and a pen. When she opened the binder with Jhin's journal, it was in French with notes and extra pages everywhere, of translations of slang or dated references that were time appropriate. Sam had a timeline as well and started to take notes in the journal, flipping to find the locations he mentioned in his journal, to try and figure out where he would be comfortable.
"Walker? Danielle?" Sam asked, wondering if the two of them were hooked up and heard what had been said.
"What if something's happened to Vlad? If Jhin didn't come out of the Fenton portal, it seems reasonable he came out of Vlad's..."
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Post by nyrax on Jan 3, 2017 22:44:36 GMT -5
"I see" Walker said simply. He had always been rather curious about Danny ever since the first time he had escaped from Walkers prison. Things had become complicated ever since Danny's parents created the ghost portal and Danny himself. There were rules before, and now there was only confusion and chaos. Walker hated Danny for that.
He peaked his head as he heard the bews about Vlad. "There's a second ghost portal?" Walker asked in surprise. He didn't know about Vlad being Plasmius.
"Danny, try to find Vlads security system. If you hook me in I might be able to find some video of what happened to Vlad" Tucker offered.
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Post by Fateful on Jan 3, 2017 22:49:33 GMT -5
Danielle glanced to Walker. "Yeah, Vlad's basically always had a portal. I actually think he has one in both of his houses, the one here and in Wisconsin, but he has some way or hiding them from inside the Ghost Zone so ghosts don't use them very often. If Vlad's one thing, it's meticulous." She replied.
However, Sam was a little less sunny about all this, as per usual. "Guys, even if we confirm what we already suspect, this is the opposite of helpful. If something did happen to Vlad, doesn't that mean the police Chief could be the last person Jhin has taken? Jhin takes them in order, which isn't always in the order of age, but if Vlad is the second person who was taken, it could mean that things are a lot further along than we thought. Walker, do you have any idea who Jhin would target?"
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Post by nyrax on Jan 4, 2017 22:17:37 GMT -5
"I do not like the direction this world is going" Walker muttered to himself as he had to forcefully stop himself from releasing an audible sigh. Why was it that Danny's friends always found a way to make life more complicated for him? He tuned out this thought as Sam asked her next question. "Jhin takes a lot of time to prepare his targets. He doesn't kill them immediately once he has all four. He believes that their suffering is a part of his art, he won't be in a hurry to finish it" he added. "In terms of who he'd target...he always has to find a connection between his victims. And I'm not talking about all male or similar hair color. There's always something more grand to it"
Danny listened to the entire conversation, saying nothing as he had found his way in to Vlad's security room and was able to find the recording he needed. Danny couldn't believe what he was seeing, the level of power and abilities this ghost had, it was unreal. "Walker, Danielle, continue your search to see if you can find anything strange. I'll get back there as soon as I can"
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Post by Fateful on Jan 4, 2017 22:43:37 GMT -5
Danielle turned down the volume on the Fenton phones. As she and Walker searched the city, mostly buildings, and some things in the police department, looking for other missing people. "Hey?" She asked softly. "You seem to understand this guy. What to you think he's using to target these people?" She scanned some police records that Walker told her not to look at. She was curious, what could you do. Since they were both in ghost form, there wasn't much she had to worry about.
The idea of something grander at work made her intently curious, so she floated behind Walker with a tail rather than legs, watching him read a folder. After a short time of silence, she watched him lower the folder, showing he was finished - or at least paused in reading. That's when she took the opportunity to ask, "Where you one of the Guys in White?"
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Post by nyrax on Jan 4, 2017 22:51:05 GMT -5
"I don't know Jhin as well as I should" Walker admitted, a tone of defeat in his voice. "Jhin was my prisoner. When I first found him he was harming ghosts on a level I had never seen. It took myself and several of my best men to bring him down. After that, I locked him away and threw away the key...quite literally" Walker said as he lowered down the folder. "Out of all my prisoners, he was one of the ones that I hoped never escaped"
At the mention of the Guys In White, Walker stiffened as he pondered the question. "That's...I don't know" Walker finally said before looking towards Danielle. "You're wasting your time asking a question like that though. It's very rare for a ghost to remember their past life. When we're created, we are created from a feeling or purpose that we felt in life. The details though? Very few of us remember that" he said. "But I can't deny, something about that name seems familiar to me"
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Post by Fateful on Jan 4, 2017 22:54:30 GMT -5
Danielle tilted her head as she listened to him, interested and focused. This wasn't something she knew, which made sense considering she wasn't completely dead. Danielle remembered being human and ghost, she had a hard time imagining what it would be like to black out the entire time she was in ghost form. It made her shutter for a moment and she smiling, nodding. "I understand, thank you for telling me." He dressed like the guys in white, but from the style, it was possible he was a bit older than they were. Did that mean they didn't remember when they died either?
She pursed her lips and her legs reappeared. "Well, Sam and Tucker are good when it comes to research, and since Sam knows about him and ha studied him when he was alive, we can hope that gets us somewhere. In the meantime, you should probably bring me into the ghost zone. Let's take a look around your prison and see if we can find anything in his cell, if he told anyone about anything... then again, if he was alone, he might not have. Anyway, my point is, there isn't anything for us in the mortal world, let's try the ghost zone."
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Post by nyrax on Jan 4, 2017 23:00:53 GMT -5
Walker considered the suggestion, but couldn't come up with a better plan for now. The others were busy working, and their time in the mortal world wasn't doing them any good. Walker wasn't sure if they'd find any clues in Jhin's cell, but it was worth a shot. "Very well" Walker said as he placed all the folders back in their proper place. "Once the portal opens, move quickly" Walker said as he pulled out a small claw from his pocket. He sliced the air and tore a portal right in to the ghost zone. They moved in, and within seconds the portal closed behind them.
Walker flew back towards his prison, leading the way for Danielle in case she didn't know the way. "I have half a mind to destroy all these portals your friends own once I recapture Jhin" Walker finally muttered as they flew. "Your friend has been nothing but trouble since he showed up. Just a halfa causing a whole mess of trouble"
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Post by Fateful on Jan 4, 2017 23:07:52 GMT -5
She nodded and did as he asked, interested in the way he could open portals on his own and move between both worlds. Did a lot of ghosts have this sort of thing? Did Danny?
Danielle flew behind Walker and was quick. Given his temper, she opted to be behind him rather than at his side, figuring he was the sort who wanted to lead and always be ahead of someone else. "I think..." She paused, "I think you underestimate Danny and his intentions. You both want the same thing, but go about it in different ways. He keeps Ghosts out of the human world and sends them back here. Yes the portals allow ghosts through, but that happens anyway. Portals open all the time all over the world and there's nothing you can do to stop that. When I lived in New York, a portal opened every night under one of the bridges I used to sleep under. It just... happened. Sometime Ghosts would come through, sometimes they wouldn't. It's how I explored the Ghost Zone for the first time. Danny is fighting for order, just not your form of it. While he makes mistakes, Danny is still human. You have to remember that."
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Post by nyrax on Jan 4, 2017 23:12:56 GMT -5
Walker suddenly stopped before turning to Danielle, facing her directly. "I do not doubt his intentions at all. What I doubt is his ability to consider any plan or action through. He fights like a child because he is a child. Like many dream he received powers and now believes it's his job to save the world. Has he done some good? Yes, he has. That does not excuse all the damage and problems that he's caused for the ghost zone" Walker said before looking in to the distance. "Neither of you will never understand though, and that isn't your fault. You didn't see what the ghost zone was like before Danny Phantom, before the stable portals...it didn't used to be like this" Walker admitted. "Ghosts fought amongst themselves over petty things, like Prince Eragon for his kingdom or Skulker to gain some trophy. What we have now though, it's true and pure chaos. My grip on this zone used to be a lot stronger than it was. Things were better"
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Post by Fateful on Jan 4, 2017 23:18:13 GMT -5
Danielle watched Walker and was shocked to hear about the difference in how things are now versus how they where before. It was absolutely astonishing, it was not something she had considered. She looked down at her tail and sighed before raising her gaze to look at him, "I didn't know that. However, Danny didn't ask for this to happen to him and neither did I. The portal was something his parents created, not him. And they also created Vlad Plasmius, which is why he has a portal. I understand where you're coming from, but did you think it would be better to ask Danny and I for help in restoring order to the ghost zone than destroying the portals? Ghosts have always walked on the human side of things, I'll agree that it's nothing like what it is now, but it happened."
She looked behind her, at where they had come. "I'll stay in the ghost zone with you and help you restore order. I'm stronger than Danny anyway," she boasted, raising her arm and flexing her muscles in her spandex.
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