Phantom Trip

Drift away from this shit

The machine hummed to life.

Phantom and Fenton shut their eyes as a bright light encased them.

The others gasped when the two boys started screaming. They were barely visible through the whirlwind of light around them but they could see Phantom being pushed back and slowly merging in with Fenton.

"It's working," Maddie said with relief. However her finger hovered over the off button. She held herself back. The process had to be complete before she turned it off, but she didn't want her son(s) in more pain than they had to be.

Both boys felt stinging pain all over. Everything around them faded away and all they could feel was the pain. Just because they were used to it, didn't mean it didn't hurt anymore.

But despite the pain, they felt relief. The different molecules embraced each other like dramatic long lost friends and held on tight. Everything took it's place and adjusted accordingly.

Maddie saw the two blur together and finally plop down on the floor, silenced. She quickly turned the machine off and the bright light disappeared. Everyone saw Danny now on the ground, groaning as he squirmed. They hurried forward to him worriedly but stopped in their tracks once they got a good look at him.

He was in human form, but wisps were leaving his body as if it was stretching.

Danny's eyes opened and he looked around to see their shocked faces. He frowned. His body felt weird. He stretched. It was a good kind of weird. His bruises and cuts disappeared and he felt so much more refreshed. He yawned for good measure before sitting up. Danny gasped when instead of sitting up, he floated. The boy frowned, he'd thought he had his powers under control.

It was then that he got a good look of his body. "What the heck?" It was as if he was in ghost form and his ghostly tail had formed. He held up a hand to see the fingers try to wisp away as if it was made of smoke. Danny yelped and concentrated to form his whole hand again.

"Whoa, Danny." Tucker couldn't help himself. "Try to keep yourself together."

"What's happening?!" Danny waved his hands over his legs, as if trying to push them back into one.

Maddie knelt before him, biting her lip in worry and thought. "I don't think your bodies have bonded completely yet. Try to solidify, Danny. Think about being human."

"But I don't know anything about being human," Danny said in desperation. "I forgot." He had, after four years of only being halfhuman, he didn't know what a normal being felt like. That one day of being separated wasn't normal either. His human body yearned its ghostliness. It was not natural.

"Breathe, Danny," Sam knelt next to Maddie and held her boyfriend by his shoulders, ignoring how his skin swirled around her fingers. "Look at me. Look at me, Danny."

Danny looked at her deep purple eyes. They crinkled when she smiled reassuringly. Before Danny knew it, his breathing evened out and he calmed down. He smiled back.

She nodded and slid her arm around his shoulders as she pulled him closer. Danny glanced down at his body to see it much more solid than before. He narrowed his eyes and focused on holding it together. It wasn't that bad. It wasn't as if he was dissipating completely. However his body wasn't like before. It felt like he could stretch it and bend it like he could his ghostly body.

Danny decided to try it. He shifted in Sam's hold, who hadn't let go yet, and tried to stretch his arm out. Nothing much happened. His arm didn't completely wiggle about like a worm. He was pretty sure his bones didn't even separate (thankfully). Not even his muscles. Now that he had calmed down enough and his body had adjusted and learned that a human shouldn't be able to disembody itself, only his skin swirled around a bit.