The Return of Dani Phantom

Chapter 1: The Guys in White's Predicament

Two men in white tuxedos, with black sunglasses and gloves were busy at the controls of their secret sector in The Woods of Lake Eerie, only a few miles east of Amity Park.  This location was well hidden from prying eyes, including invisible ones:  namely, ghosts' eyes.  Not that it mattered.   The one ghost that these ghost-hunters were targeting didn't even seem to want to find them.  
It had been two years since Danny Phantom helped to save Earth from being hit by a massive ectoranium asteroid.  Had he not gathered almost every ghost in the ghost-zone together to help turn the earth intangible, the entire planet would have been completely obliterated.  
After saving the planet, Danny Phantom had willingly revealed his identity to the whole world as being a human boy named Daniel Fenton: Son of the ghost experts, Jack and Madeline Fenton, and student of Casper High School.
Yet despite the face that this teenage boy was originally, entirely human, The Guys in White were still ghost-hunters and Danny Fenton was still at least part ghost. And even if ghosts did help save the world, according to these two white clad men, ghosts were still nothing more than trouble and a source of fear to all.  In addition, in order to become stronger and better ghost-hunters, they had to do their research.  If a human boy could somehow suddenly obtain ghost-powers, what were the chances of other people getting them as well, and creating evil half-ghost villains like Vlad Plasmius, who was known to be Phantom’s archenemy and had also been ruling Amity Park as mayor for a time in his human form, known as Vlad Masters.  
However, though the whole world now knew both identities of both this young ghost hero and ill-famed millionaire mayor, no one had seen Masters since he failed to hold the world ransom to stop the anti-ghost-elemental asteroid.  Or the Disasteroid as people sometimes had called it.  
Also, the Fenton kid was smart enough to know that not everyone would suddenly change their views about ghosts, or ghost-hybrids for that matter, no matter how good the deed was that he performed.  
Danny Fenton had moved his family out of Fenton Works and to a place more secret from the Guys in White's own prying eyes.  No one, other than close associations to the Fenton family, knew, or would even tell, of the their current whereabouts.  
Though, word still had it that Danny Phantom still was traveling abroad and continuing his ghost-fighting streak.
As you can imagine, this brought about quite a bit of frustration to the Guys in White.  They too had been roaming around, trying to locate this half-ghost teenager, but always came up short of the proper trail.  They had tried every single upgrade in their ghost-detection equipment, investigated his latest sighting locations, and even tried some other, rather forceful matters on people who were known to have last seen him.  Despite The Guys in White’s efforts, the ghost-hybrid has been eluding them for two whole years already.  His family had also been ghost-hunters and were no doubt helping him now to better avoid the detection of the ghost-hunters who weren’t nearly as friendly, especially the Guys in White.  
The agents would have asked the government a long time ago for more income to further advance their equipment, but they had already been stretching a few things to full capacity.  
Danny Phantom was practically a celebrity now.  Well respected by the majority of Amity Park’s population in addition to the rest of the world’s.  If the government knew that the Guys in White were still trying to bring him down, their funding would be cut in two seconds.  
Besides, the ghost-hunting agency had already had quite a bit of success in hunting down other more troublesome ghosts. If they asked for more money to upgrade their scanning technology further, the government would surely suspect something.   The only reason they were still in business was that their other ghost-catching successes were viewed merely as a service to make Danny Phantom’s job easier, now that he was a global hero rather than just one town’s.  
Operative K, the African-American agent, was beginning to fall asleep at the spectral-radar screen from boredom and Operative O, the bearded, pale-faced agent, was mindlessly tinkering with other controls with no real purpose.  Both were beginning to think that they should just give up and call it a night, when suddenly the buzzers went off and the screen began to blink.  A startled Operative K. immediately bolted upright and looked more carefully at the screen.  Operative O. rushed over to his partner’s side to look at the scanner results, himself.  
This particular scanner was only reserved for Danny Phantom’s ecto-plasmic signature, so their hopes of achieving their goal were now very high. “Looks like we finally have our target in sight.” Operative K. said, with a triumphant look on his face.  
Operative O. looked over Operative K’s shoulder at the scan results.  It certainly seemed so.  The scanners were saying that the signature didn’t seem to be quite right, but if it wasn’t the ghost they were looking for, they didn’t think this scanner would be going off.  The ghost-hybrid’s parents must have made something for him to somehow scramble his signature in ghost-hunter’s scanners.  However, it must not have been working very well.  The father of that family was always considered the incompetent ghost-hunter in all of Amity Park.  
“But where’s the signal coming from?” Operative O. asked.
Operative K. examined the results further and a bit of confusion crossed his face.  “Right above us.”  He responded.  
After a slight hesitation, both men rushed to the window to confirm their findings.  It was nighttime (passed midnight in fact) and the sky was dark.  Not to mention they could barely see through the canopy of the forest where they were concealed, so it was difficult to see anything against the inky black sky.  Sure enough though, both agents spotted something flying a distance above the forest at a high speed.  Even though it was dark, the two operatives could also tell that it was black and white.  It would no doubt be their number one target.
“But what would he be doing way out here?”  Operative K. wondered.
“Either trying to get somewhere fast for another ghost-fighting duty, or on his way to visit his friend, the mayor.”  Operative O. responded.  
The new mayor of Amity Park was, after all, Tucker Foley.  He had been a best friend of Danny Fenton both before and after Danny became known as the world’s ghost-hero.  
During the time of danger of the asteroid, Tucker Foley, though only in his mid-teens at the time, had already known extensively about ghost-compatible technology.  He led the construction team on the building of a transfer device that had been used to help spread the ghost’s intangibility power across the world so the asteroid would pass harmlessly through it.  After the save, Danny Phantom had declined the nomination of being the new mayor of Amity Park, as Mayor Masters had run off, leaving his position empty, so Tucker Foley was next nominated and elected.  
The Guys in White had considered interrogation of the Fenton’s whereabouts out of him, but they knew better than to try and break into City Hall and do something like that.  If they even attempted such a thing, it would definitely arouse suspicions in the government of what they were really up to.  Not to mention the fact that they would probably get arrested.   Besides, if the mayor was loyal enough to his friend to not tell anyone his secret identity the whole time, what were the chances of him telling the Guys in White where he was hiding.  
But whether or not Mayor Foley would have been cooperative in that regard or not didn’t matter now.  The Guys in White’s target was now in range.  
“Activate the Spectral-Diffusion device” Operative O. ordered.
Without hesitation, Operative K. instantly went to work on other controls.  Outside a window, the two agents saw a cannon-like tube project out of the side of their stronghold and take aim at the small, flying mass.  
This device had been built and perfected as well as duplicated months ago for this very purpose.  If a direct hit was delivered, the device would start to slowly deplete any ghost’s powers, and keep them inactive for as long as eight whole hours.  Even after that time was up, the ghost would still not be able to use the powers in full until after another seven or so hours.  The Guys in White had made sure of this.  Since the ghost would not be able to use his powers effectively for over half a day, it would be much easier for them to take it into custody.  
This device would have worked on any ghost, but the one target they were especially saving these for was Danny Phantom.  And now that they had him in their sights, it was time to bring him down.
“ Fire.”  Operative O. commanded, and Operative K. pressed the red, fire button.