The Afterlife lab was completely chaotic. Lab technicians were running around the lab trying to get the back up generators working for the portal, while Men in White agents had the guns pointing at the portal, ready to pounce on whatever came out.

Meanwhile, on the observation platform, Tucker Folely was working furiously at his computer terminal trying to get the system back online. But whatever was causing this system failure was not letting him get anywhere near fixing the problem. He had tried every hacker trick he could think of and even tried hooking up his PDA to the computer. Nothing was working and that same green face was staring at him laughing.

Just then an alarm sounded. Tucker looked up from his console to see it was the ghost alarm. Something had gotten through the portal. He looked down just in time to see several Men In White agents go flying in different directions.

Standing at the entrance to the portal was the most monstrous ghost Tucker had ever seen. It stood seven feet tall, with dark green skin. It was wearing what appeared to be white and pink striped pajamas. Its eyes were red and unfocused but still held anger in them. The ghost surveyed its surroundings and let out a hard grunt.

"Leave me ALONE!" The Men in White agents that were left standing from the first assault fired their ecto-rays at the ghost. The green lasers bounced off it harmlessly, but now the ghost seemed more angry.

"I said LEAVE ME ALONE!" The ghost took a deep breath and blew out cold air at the surrounding agents. They immediately became frozen in place. The monster then hit their frozen bodies, reducing them to pieces all over the lab.

"Whoa!" Tucker yelled, watching the gruesome scene unfold. He quickly ran down the steps of the observation platform. Doctors and lab technicians were running out the entrance to the lab.

Just then the ghost spotted Tucker and blew cold air his way. It froze the floor in front of him and sent him sliding right in front of the ghost.

It eyed him menacingly and brought its huge fists down. Tucker rolled out of the way just in time. He got to his feet and tried to run but the creature grabbed him by his collar and brought him up to eye level.

"I will rip your head off," it said. It was all Tucker had not to throw up. The things breath smelled like rotten garbage.

"I actually like my head where it is thanks," Tucker said. He reached into his lab coat and picked up the first thing he could find, his spray on cologne. He brought it out and sprayed it in the monsters face. The creature bellowed in pain and threw Tucker into a nearby wall.

"I am definitely going to feel that in the morning," he said staggering to his feet. The monster rubbed its eyes and ran at Tucker.

The young scientist was just able to jump out of the way. He then saw a Men in White agent on the floor unconscious. He quickly ran to him.

On his belt was a Fenton Thermos. Tucker quickly grabbed it and pointed it at the ghost. It ran at him again ready to kill, but Tucker uncapped the thermos and the ghost was sucked inside. He quickly capped it and dropped it to the floor.

After a minute, not hearing any more commotion, people began to filter back into the lab to see what had happened. In the middle of the destruction and death, Tucker sat there holding onto the thermos for dear life.

More Men In White agents came running in. Leading them was Blake Runner. He ran to Tucker.

"What the hell happened in here?" He looked down at Tucker and brought him to his feet in one rough motion.

"This got through," he said handing the agent the thermos. Blake looked at it like it might explode. Tucker walked away from the agent and got out his cell phone. "I need to call Danny."

--

Just then, twenty miles away, Danny was flying through the air as fast as he could. He arrived at Axion Labs to see smoke coming from the top. He looked around the outside and was relieved to see that he beat Valerie here, not seeing her car.

The Phantom flew down and phased through the roof of the building into the main lab. There were bodies of different scientists and security guards all over the lab. Before he could even check the bodies he heard a scream.

"No please don't!" Phantom flew through a wall into the next room where he saw a scientist cowering on the floor.

Standing over the scientist was some sort of faceless metal monster. It stood ten feet tall and was made out of different machines all molded together to make a body. The thing brought its hands up to crush the scientist.

Phantom soared through the air and struck the monster, sending it flying back into a wall. Little metal pieces fell off of it but it still seemed unfazed.

The monster lunged at the half ghost. Danny brought up a shield and its blows bounced off of it. It then took another swing at him but Danny caught its fists and threw it over his head across the lab.

"C'mon, a bucket of bolts is not going to hurt me," the hero taunted. The thing ran at Danny again. This time he stuck his hands out and a green burst of energy shot out at the monster reducing it to ruble. His hand was still glowing green and all Danny could do was looked at it in amazement. "That could be useful."

Suddenly he felt the familiar chill of his ghost sense. Following it, Phantom flew through the empty rooms until he came to the main computer room. In it was a giant super computer that was supposedly linked to government weapons and satellites.

In front of the computer was what looked like a man. He had green skin and long white hair down to his back. He wore dark sunglasses and a long white cape over a tattered business suit.

"What the hell do you think you're doing?" Phantom yelled in outrage. The ghost turned around and glared at him.

"You dare speak to me like that?! I am Technus Master of Technology." His voice was loud and sounded whiney.

Technus held his hands out and green electricity shot out in two different directions. Before Danny could do anything, two smaller versions of the robotic monster tackled him to the ground.

"HA! You see that resisting me is unwise." Danny struggled for a second then sent the two robots flying off of him. Technus stepped back. "I see you are a formidable opponent, but no matter. Once I fuse myself with this computer I will be a god!" Phantom held his fists up.

"And what makes you think I'll let you do that?" Technus let out a loud obnoxious laugh.

"You seem to care for these bags of flesh." He made a gesture and Danny saw for the first time, a man tied up in cables attached to the wall. He recognized the man immediately at Valerie's father.

"Mr. Grey?" Danny said in a breathless voice. Technus laughed again.

"Yes, if you take one more step towards me I will fry this human." Phantom glared at Technus but didn't make any move to stop him.

Technus then brought his hands down onto the console and phased into the computer. His face appeared on the screen.

"Yessssss, I can feel my power growing."

"What are you doing?" Phantom yelled.

"I am linking myself with this company's satellite. Once the process is complete, I will have control over all technology on this mud ball." A million questions came to Danny.

"Why are you doing this?" Technus chuckled.

"Because, it is what I am. In life I was a lowly computer technician thirty years ago. I was under appreciated and ridiculed for what I knew. But when I died I was blessed with this awesome power. I waited on the other side for an opportunity to come back into this world. And when you're a being such as I, time is meaningless. I saw the opening to this world was being held open through technology. It was child's play to break the shields and come out through the computers. Now nothing will be able to stop me.!" He started laughing again.

Phantom took one step forward. The cables around Mr. Grey tightened.

"Carful now," Technus warned. "We wouldn't want any accidents now." Danny clenched his fists, powerless to stop Technus. "Stupid boy," The cables around Mr. Grey tightened more and fried him with green electricity.

"NO!" Danny flew to him. Just then a green burst of light shot out of the building up into the sky. Technus was gone.

Phantom held the limp form of his girlfriend's father. He was dead. Before Danny could do anything the door burst open and Valerie came running in. She looked at Danny and then her father.

"Dad? What did you do?" Phantom placed him on the floor at a loss for words. Valerie rushed at the half ghost.

Phantom quickly became intangible and flew through the ceiling and out of the lab. Valerie glared up at where he had disappeared then looked down at her dad.

She fell to his side and clutched his limp body crying. The anger she felt toward that ghost was blinding. One day, she thought, she will have her revenge.

--

At the Afterlife lab Tucker was supervising the clean up the ghost left behind when Danny came running in. He came up to Tucker out of breath.

"Dude, what happened?" He asked his friend. Danny started to explain when he first noticed all the damage. He looked around and saw Technus's face on all the monitors.

"I think we have a big problem."