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Psycho Phantom- Chapter 1

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Chapter 1: The Freak and the Fruitloop

Amity Park Penitentiary, Maximum Security- 3:00 PM, Saturday

Footsteps were heard coming down the metal hallway. A tall man of about 42 was walking towards the Maximum Security Holding Center, accompanied by two heavily-armed guards. The man wore a completely black suit and had a grey ponytail.  He held his hands behind his back, and the look in his eyes was one of somebody who had evil on his mind. Upon reaching the end of the hallway, one of the guards stepped forward and inserted a key card. The huge metal doors slid open to reveal the most dangerous criminal in the entire prison.

Freakshow lifted his head.  He looked as strange as ever with his ghostly white skin, small hat and black overcoat. “Do I know you?” he asked suspiciously. The guards left and the door closed behind them.

“Allow me to introduce myself. I am Vlad Masters,” the man said. He would’ve held out his hand if it weren’t for the handcuffs binding Freakshow’s hands together.

“Ah yes, I believe I’ve heard of you,” Freakshow replied. He tried to keep a smile on his face, but after his last defeat that was a nearly impossible task for him. “Tell me… aren’t you also known as Vlad Plasmius?” He managed a smirk as he said the words. Vlad was stunned.

“Now how could you possibly know that name?” he inquired. It was his turn to be suspicious.

“Let’s just say I’ve been… enlightened recently. Your arch-enemy is Danny Phantom, correct?” Vlad waited for him to go on. “I’ve run into him on more than one occasion. I don’t suppose you could help me out of here, could you?”

“About that,” Vlad said, pacing to the other side of the room. “I might be able to set you free… if you can tell me what I want to know.”

“I have a better idea,” Freakshow declared, pointing at Vlad as best he could. “You set me free, and I tell no one about your ghost half.” Vlad took a step back.

“Who would believe a freak like you?” he asked defensively.

“They have lie detectors here, you know,” Freakshow explained. “They’d know I wasn’t lying.”

Vlad looked around, seeming almost afraid. Then he noticed that there were no security cameras in the room. “Hmmm… If you won’t cooperate, then we’ll have to do this the hard way.” Freakshow was blinded by a flash of light, and the next thing he saw was Vlad Plasmius standing over him.

“What could you p-possibly do?” Freakshow asked with a nervous laugh. “If Vlad Masters doesn’t come out of this room, they’ll know you did something!”

“But he will,” Plasmius replied. He created a single copy of himself. The original Plasmius changed back into a human while the copy overshadowed Freakshow. “See you soon.” With that, Vlad hit the metal door twice and was let out by the guards. As soon as the doors closed, Freakshow disappeared.

Castle of the Dairy King, just outside of Wisconsin- 3:14 PM, Saturday

Freakshow had nearly fallen asleep when he heard the sound of footsteps. He grasped the bars of his cage and turned his attention to the stairway. A shadowy figure with red eyes emerged from the doorway. The Vlad copy that had been guarding the cage looked up and flew toward its creator.

“Plasmius again? Why must you keep bothering me?” Freakshow asked in a mildly annoyed tone.

“Because, Frederich, I require your knowledge.” Freakshow cringed at the sound of his own name. Vlad stepped into the room and changed back to his human form (having teleported to his house as soon as he was out of sight of the prison). “Have you heard of a certain Reality Gauntlet?”

“Been there, done that,” Freakshow mumbled. He sat on the floor and laid his head in his hands. “For all I know the ghost boy has destroyed it by now.”

Vlad’s eyes went wide. “You had it? And…” His eyes narrowed. “Danny Phantom stopped you?”

“You don’t have to remind me!” Freakshow snapped. Then he drew back. “Actually, it might be helpful if you did. I can barely remember the whole ordeal. After he beat me and handed me over to the Guys in White, he wiped some memory out of my mind. Oh, how I wish I knew what it was…” He paused and rubbed his temples. “But the one thing I did learn from using the gauntlet was that you were his arch enemy.”

“Ah, so that’s how you knew me… and I bet Daniel wiped his true identity from your mind.”

Vlad paced back and forth. “If the gauntlet HAS been destroyed, then you are of no use to me.”

“Not true,” Freakshow replied, afraid of what Vlad might do to get rid of him. “Surely you must be interested in OTHER artifacts… how about the Skeleton Key?”

“You mean THIS Skeleton Key?” Vlad asked, pulling the item out of his pocket. Freakshow twitched.

“Um, yes… well… how about the Ring of Rage or the Crown of Fire?”

“I suppose you were locked up when the Ghost King attacked,” Vlad responded, brushing an invisible something off of his shirt and seeming uninterested.

“What about the Staff of Isak?” Freakshow inquired hopefully.

“I looked into that one myself,” Vlad said. “Apparently the staff was passed down from generation to generation of a certain Showenhower family.” He paused to glance at Freakshow. “I found it near a bridge over the river, smashed to pieces.”

Freakshow tugged at the collar of his shirt, desperately trying to come up with something else. His innocent smile couldn’t hide the sweat drops forming on his forehead. That’s when it hit him. “Ah, of course. Have you ever heard of the Orb of Tesla?”

Vlad clearly hadn’t, because he perked up when he heard the name. “Go on.”

“Yes, a mystical orb designed by an ancient ghost. The orb is supposed to enable its user to teleport anywhere they want.” Freakshow waited for Vlad’s reaction.

“You do realize I’m half-ghost? I can already teleport,” Vlad scoffed.

“Ah, but can you teleport to other dimensions?” Freakshow had been waiting to spring this bit of information.

He finally had Vlad’s full attention. “What do you mean by other dimensions?”

“Tesla designed the orb so that she could get from the Ghost Zone to the human plane. Of course, there are multiple other planes that the orb can travel to, if someone were to get their hands on it.”

“And where exactly is this orb located?” Vlad asked.

Freakshow grinned a psychotic grin. “Why, in Tesla’s castle, of course. I might be able to show you the way…”

Vlad glared at Freakshow, trying to figure out what diabolical scheme he had planned. “This orb had better exist,” Vlad said skeptically. He took his Skeleton Key and opened Freakshow’s cage. “Now, where are we going?”
Wow... I managed to post the first chapter even with my mountain of homework. I'm AMAZING! =P Bwahahaha.
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Ohhhh, no. :P Can't be good.