The Halfa Gene

Summary: While raiding Vlad's mansion, Danny discovers there's a reason the portal accident didn't kill him. At the same time, Plasmius and the Guys in White plot to take over the Ghost Zone.

Amity Park's dynamic duo Danny Phantom and Shady were leaving Amity Park in the hands of Danielle, Mckenzie, Sam, and Valerie. The team had recently graduated from high school and now were preparing for college. With Vlad's disappearance and presumed death, Danny wanted to destroy all remnants of his enemy's empire. Over the past few days, he and Shady had been raiding through Vlad's former hideouts and destroying them. Since the fruit loop had mysteriously disappeared, they decided to take advantage and make sure he'd have nothing to return to if he returned. Neither of them knew that Vlad had hideouts scattered across the nation. They had already destroyed hideouts in Wisconsin, Texas, California, Wyoming, Georgia, and Florida and now were in Alaska, the place where Vlad had performed the experiment on Mckenzie that turned her into a reality warping halfa.

"Alright, we're at the last hideout, you girls sure you can can handle Amity Park while we're gone?" Danny asked Dani over the communicator.

"We've got everything covered" Dani replied, assisting Mckenzie, Sam and Valerie in a fight against a large Godzilla esque ghost.

"Uh Dani; we could use your help here" Mckenzie called.

"I've gotta go, have fun" Dani said before hanging up.

"Alright Eddie, let's find anything useful then torch the place" Danny said.

Eddie nodded.

After 30 minutes of searching, Danny saw a flash out of the corner of his eye. The flash was Eddie's way of getting Danny's attention.

"You've got to see this" Eddie signed, handing Danny a folder.

"These are notes on human ghost hybrids; what could they possibly have to offer?" Danny asked.

"Read this file" Eddie signed, pulling out a specific paper.

Danny grabbed the file and began reading.

*"Shortly after reuniting with my former friend Jack Fenton, I discovered his son Daniel was also a human ghost hybrid. This piqued my curiosity and desired to learn more about them. I decided to run a series of tests to discover more about half ghosts. I decided to hire a group of people for experimentation. They were hookers and street dwellers; poor people whose disappearance would largely go unnoticed. I promised them money and power and naturally they accepted. There were approximately 50 of them, I split them into three groups. One group was treated to the same procedure that gave me my powers. The second group were forced to activate my ghost portal from the inside. The third group was exposed to ectoplasmic radiation gradually. Of the 50 test subjects only 7 of them survived. It was then that I realized there must be some specific reason the incident didn't kill me. Whether it be fate, Devine intervention, or some biological reason, I survived my brush with death. Anyway, the 7 that survived indeed became half ghosts but 4 of them went insane and to prevent mass destruction I was forced to kill them. I examined their remains and discovered they possessed a rather unique genetic mutation. I will disclose more information in the weeks that follow."*

"Eddie, do you know what this means?" Danny asked his partner.

Eddie shook his head.

"It means there may be a reason the portal only half killed me and why the ghost attack that gave you your powers did just that," Danny revealed.

"Not only that, but what we have is evidence of one of Vlad's many crimes against humanity. If he ever comes back, we'll have solid proof against him so let's grab the files and all other notes we can find" Eddie signed.

Danny nodded in agreement and the two scoured the lab for anything else.

"You find anything?" Danny asked thirty minutes later.

Eddie shook his head.

"Alright, then let's torch the place and get back to Amity Park; it'll be good to be home after all these days," Danny said.

Shady lit a fireball and tossed it to the ground near some flammable chemicals. The two halfas quickly got out of the building and flew off as the building exploded behind them. It was a long flight and predictably they eventually got hungry so they stopped to get something to eat. After they finished eating, they decided to read more of the files.

*"It's been two weeks since my first attempt to create half ghosts or as Daniel and friends refer to them, halfas. Despite having what I have dubbed the halfa gene, the 3 surviving individuals health has been steadily deteriorating. In a move of desperation, I've decided to activate their healing factors. In order to do so, I must deal tremedous damage to them. Their healing factors will allow them to recover much faster then a human. Contrary to popular belief, healing factors and other regenarative powers does not mean the person is immortal as they can still succumb to disease and old age. It is possible for them to be murdered but it would take decapitation or completely destroying the body for this to be accomplished.*

Week 3

*My attempt to activate their healing factor was a success. Their conditions improved almost instantly. However, they became greedy. I decided it wouldn't cause too much harm if I let them rob a few banks. They were infinitely greatful to me for giving them their powers and would do anything to please me. Taking advantage of this, we worked together to expand my business empire. Of course the activities were illegal, but how else would we acquire so much money?*

Week 6

*Despite the success of my experiment, I am still curious about the halfa gene. Is it a natural reccessive gene that needs something to trigger it in order to unlock the person's full power? In other words, have I always had my powers that were dormant until the incident in college triggered them? Or is it caused by exposure to ectoplasmic radiation? It can't possibly be the latter; if it was, then all 17 specimen in the third group should have survived rather than three. To get closer to a logical conclusion, I shall take a blood sample from each halfa and examine it. I'll write down any observations as soon as possible.*

Week 6; Tuesday 3:14

*The blood sample analysis brought up nothing major; just more questions. How many more people are carrying the halfa gene? How many have had their abilities awakened?*

Week 7

*My apprentices desired independence so I allowed them to leave. I won't be surprised if one or all of them end up like me, using their powers to become some of the richest people on Earth. They departed on good terms and I truly wish them the best. Now onto my plan to have Daniel, Jazzmine, and Maddie as my family."*

Danny stopped reading taking a minute to take all this in.

"This is interesting to say the least" Danny said.

"We've got to show this to the rest of the gang," Eddie signed.

So they returned to Amity Park and met up with their friends at Sam's house.

"How'd everything go?" Sam asked.

"Everything went according to plan, how'd everything go here?" Danny asked.

"There were a couple ghost attacks, but nothing too serious" Dani told them.

"You going to tell everybody what we found?" Eddie signed.

"What'd you guys find?" Valerie asked.

Danny pulled out the files and read what he and Shady had already looked over.

"The Halfa Gene?" Jazz asked after listening to everything.

"Dude, that's totally awesome!" Tucker said. "I could be a halfa!"

"What makes you say that?" Asked Sam.

"Remember when Desiree gave me ghost powers?" Tucker asked.

"But in that instant you only gained powers because of magic" Danny reminded him.

"C'mon, let's read more of this" Mckenzie said.

"Uh, Kenzie; this next file's about you" Danny said before he began reading.

*"My plan to steal the elemental gems was admittedly a failure. Once again, all thanks to Danny and his friends. Is it just me or does Eddie Logan seem to have some sort of resurrective immortality. I killed him myself and yet the mute was miraculously revived by the spirits of the Elemental Gems just in time to stop me from making my escape. Had I not managed to secretly hang on to one of the gems, I would've been imprisoned in a pocket dimension for who knows how long. After escaping, I managed to kidnap Loan's girlfriend, McKenzie Scott right in front of them. I could use her as ransom to force Team Phantom to retrieve the gems for me, but this is a matter of revenge. I'll kill her instead, but first I need to run some tests.

Day 2

There's been a slight change in plans. It would appear that our little captive coincidentally possesses the Halfa Gene. Rather than kill her, I plan on using the elemental gem I have in my possession to turn her into a half ghost. Because I am using an elemental geek, which individually have the power to alter reality, Ms. Scott should gain the gem's reality warping abilities. The only reason I'm not trying this procedure on myself is because harnessing the gem's power on a person has a very likely chance of backfiring and painfully tearing the test subject apart from the inside out. Our little guest will have no reason to worry about that however as if that should occur, it'll be nothing compared to the pain I put her through.

Day 3

In order to brainwash Ms. Scott and turn her against her allies, I'm first going to need to break her mind. And what better way to do that than a good old fashioned round of cold blooded torture? I had planned on torturing her anyway as part of my revenge against the psycho, but this just gives me better reason.

Week 2

Everything's been going according to plan so far. This week, I subjected Ms. Scott to torture involving knives and electricity. Might as well start small. The young girl chose to be defiant, not letting out a single scream as I sliced her flesh. The brat even had the nerve to headbutt me in the face. She refused to beg when I sent titanic bolts of electricity through her body. This is going to be fun. There's little doubt in my mind that by the time I'm finished with her, she'll be begging me for mercy.

Week 3

Experimentation has begun. I've been watching through several hidden cameras as Daniel and his friends frantically try to find and rescue their captured teammate. Logan appears to be becoming even more unhinged with the loss of his tamer. Back to the point, this week I sedated the test subject and injected her with ectoplasm. The poor girl could only struggle against the straps holding her down as her body fought against the ectoplasm, slowly and painfully half killing her as the ectoplasm merged with her DNA. I imagine it must have been agonizing judging by how loud she was screaming. For a brief moment, I thought that she completely died as she lost consciousness during the process. Fortunately for me (and unfortunately for her), her body pulled through and she survived. Her powers are still dormant however and I don't plan on unleashing them for a long time.

Week 4

After spending the rest of last week cutting and electrocuting Ms. Scott (who still insists on being defiant) even more, it's time to move on to the next phase of the plan. Now I begin using the elemental gem at my disposal. I imprisoned the test subject in a chamber that was hooked up to a machine designed to harness the power of the gem. The machine would connect her to the gem and vice versa after which the gem's power would be siphoned and transferred to her body. Once again, the process was quite excruciating for her and I briefly thought that the gem's energy would end up tearing her apart. Somehow, she pulled through (perhaps out of spite seeing as she said Fuck you! when I mockingly asked her if she was alright) and survived. Unfortunately, the gem was burned out, meaning that I couldn't repeat the process on myself even if I wanted to. No matter, a little more time and she'll be my obedient little slave. The following day, I decided to finally trigger the halfa gene by forcing Ms. Scott into an inactive ghost portal and then activating it while she was still inside. Now that her halfa gene's been triggered, all that's left is to activate her healing factor. Oh, I am going to have so much fun with this.

Weeks 5-9

Over the past few weeks, I've been torturing Ms. Scott as brutally as possible, pushing her new healing factor to the limit. On one occasion, I vivisected her, removing her internal organs in front of her while she grit her teeth to avoid screaming. I have to admit, the girl is resilient. On another occasion, I crucified and disemboweled her leaving her painfully moving in and out of consciousness, helpless as her entrails dripped from her torso. On yet another occasion, I skinned her alive. On all three of these occasions, were it not for her new regenerative healing factor (which activated when I savagely beat her and broke every bone in her body, my tamest of tortures) , she would've died. Among my other atrocities, I whipped her with a specially crafted whip with barbs that were designed to dig into her flesh and rip out parts of skin when retracted, I blasted her eyes with my ghost ray, I carved into her back with a red hot blade (which strangely, wasn't healed by her healing factor), I burned her with blowtorches, impaled her from several angles with sharp pointed iron rods, cut off several limbs and appendages multiple times, and more. It was during this time, that I finally managed to break through her defiant attitude. She still refuses to beg, but she has seemingly accepted her fate and doesn't even attempt to fight back anymore, although she does continue to make snide sarcastic remarks and quips whenever given the chance. To break her mentally, I subjected Ms. Scott to sensory deprivation as well as gave her hallucinogens that made her hallucinate about her friends and being freed (including several scenarios where her friends abandoned her or rescued her [the look on her face when she realized her rescue was just a dream was priceless]). To further humiliate the girl, I put a shock collar around her neck and forced her to refer to me as while standing and crawling on all fours like a dog. At is at this point that my conscience is telling me that I've gone too far, but I don't care. The look on Team Phantom's face when they find out their former teammate has been turned into my obedient slave will be more than worth. I especially want to see the look on Logan's face when he sees what I've done to his girlfriend. Hopefully, it'll be the last thing he sees before I force her to kill him.

Weeks 10-12

It would appear I've finally managed to completely and utterly break Ms. Scott and destroy her spirit. She's begging me for mercy and does whatever I say. In recent weeks, I've been training her on how to use her ghost powers. In a few weeks time, I'll be prepared to take my revenge.

Suddenly a light exploded, plunging the room into darkness.

"Sorry" Eddie apologized telepathically, his anger momentarily causing his mental powers to go haywire. Eddie hated to be reminded of what Vlad had put Mckenzie through. The once strong, feisty, rebellious girl had been left a battered, broken and traumatized shell. Now he was comforting Mckenzie, who had a breakdown and was sobbing after being reminded of the horrific ordeal.

Meanwhile, in a secret government agency.

"Remind me again why we should trust you Plasmius when you've repeatedly tried to take over the world?" The Guy in White commander asked.

"Because I'm funding you," Vlad replied. "Ever since Danny Phantom saved the world, everyone thinks you're useless; besides you need my help in taking over the Ghost Zone"

"True, but how do I know you won't double cross us?" The GIW Commander asked.

"I may be a homicidal half ghost, but I am also a man of my word," Vlad answered. "If, no when we succeed in taking over, I solemnly swear not to betray you or take over the world. All I ask for in return is my criminal record wiped clean and the corpse of Danny Phantom."

The commander paused for a moment before shaking Vlad's hand.

"Mr. Masters, you've got yourself a deal."

I got the idea for this story from the theory that Danny is Vlad's son, making his powers genetic. I decided to expand and spin off the idea by making Danny and other OC halfas powers the result of a genetic mutation. R&R. Quick note, I'm rewriting certain elements of my story (for example, my stories now take place before Phantom Planet rather than after, Eddie's last name is Logan rather than Cipriani, etc.). Not to worry though, this story will still kinda suck!