I am so very sorry for not having updated in like...forever. I've had this chapter planned out and it was almost finished when I ran into a road block. The stupid little mental wall known as Writer's Block. I hate it. But I got my mojo back.

This is admittedly the last chapter. -Tear- BUT! I do share equally opposite news. There is a sequel! In fact, I've planned a sequel to the sequel already! XD

Thank you to all of you out there, readers and writers alike, that have supported me along the way and have long awaited the closing to this story. I'm very excited to about the sequel and hope, once I get a chance to work more on it, you will love just as I do. -Grin-

Have fun and enjoy the final chapter of:
-"Machine Mayhem"-

In front of him was the back door of the computer and he was going to get in. He thought of all the things Tucker had taught him about hacking and concentrated. He was made to have compatibility with any computer, he found out, and decided to use their weapon against them, literally.

He found the password and a cyber key appeared before him. After he unlocked the cyber back door, he found it heavily guarded by firewalls and hacker-proof programs, but he was made to get around them with ease.

The doctors worked frantically to get him out of their computer, including taking the wire out of his neck, but Danny kept a solid, wireless connection. Once he got around the heavy security measures in the computer, he found the door leading to the mainframe, the area of a computer that holds all the hard drives, and opened it with another key.

On the outside, the doctors were doing their best to locate their hacker and get him out of their systems, but he dodged every obstacle, with the agility and skills they had originally given him.

Danny's body was watching for a chance to escape, though he hoped to at least get rid of all the files containing the information gathered on him first.

Finally Danny, in the computer, found the door that was labeled, "Project: Cyborg" and smirked as he opened that door too.

Once inside, he found the "delete-all" program he had secretly downloaded from Tucker's PDA and used it on the hard drive containing all the information on him.

The doctors, once they noticed that, one by one, the files on their project were being deleted, they became frantic. But the head doctor quickly hooked Danny back up, a plan of his own brewing.

But before his plan could be fulfilled, Danny seemed to snap back to life as the electronically controlled straps undid them selves by retracting into the side of the metal table.

Danny used the file erasing as more of a distraction, but he was glad he still did it. That way they didn't have any more information on him so he would be free.

He got up and pulled the wire out of his neck and went out the door. All the doctors except the leader were worrying about the files being erased and all tried to stop it, but they had never encountered such a program and couldn't find a way around it.

Doctor 1 followed Danny through the corridors of the building, but wasn't fast enough and didn't have as much stamina as Danny did and he was eventually out of his clutches.

Before leaving earshot, he faintly heard the doctor shout, "I will have you one day! You have a part of something you won't know about until it's too late!" Danny didn't care what the doctor had said, his sights set on a way out of the building and away from the familiar evil laugh that echoed in the cold, metal hallways.

Finally he came a across an emergency exit and found it locked. He just wanted through. He tried going at it shoulder first but found it wouldn't budge. He wanted to get out so badly, he was barely crying, silent tears falling from his blue orbs, down his cheeks.

Danny closed his eyes and decided he would try one last time. He wanted out so bad; he was willing to go through the door or a wall if he had too. With one last readying breath, he ran to the door.

The next moment he was outside. He could feel the cold breeze again and smiled slightly as the wind blew his raven black hair into his face. He pushed it out of the way and, without looking back, ran home.

As he left, he didn't look back, so he didn't notice there was no hole or any damage from where he had escaped, and the door was still locked.

DPDPDPDPDPDPDPDPDPDPDP

Danny arrived home, on the very hill he had been captured on and looked around him, catching his breath, before casually walking back into town.

His cell phone rang and he would have normally answered it, but he felt there was another way.

Suddenly his hearing enhancer, built into his ear, answered the phone, as he had been thinking to do, and his mom was on the other line.

He instinctively went to talk, but he couldn't, not into the phone. It was weird. Then he thought about saying "hi" and it seemed his mother had somehow heard. He thought to himself and found that he could talk out loud if it wasn't going to be in the phone, thinking to himself without the person, or in this case his mom, on the other line hearing.

Then there was thinking about something you were directing to the person on the other end and it worked. She heard him. His mom was unhappy about him being out so long and so late, but he was nonetheless happy to hear her voice.

He tried to calm his mom down and think of a way to explain to her why he was out for so long and so late, but he found there was no way he could try to explain it to her without her thinking he was out late doing something he shouldn't be doing.

So he decided he would have to tell her, but not over the phone. He didn't want to risk it. Danny told his mom he would explain everything once he got home, leaving out the part of having Sam and Tucker come over as support.

They said goodbye and once they hung up, he thought about Sam's number and it immediately began dialing. He smiled and decided he could get used to this.

Once he was done calling Sam then Tucker, they met up shortly and walked over to his house. They stopped outside the doorstep and Sam wanted to make sure he was up to not only telling his family, but also putting them in danger.

Once they knew his secret, they would always be in danger because of the knowledge they possessed.

"Sam, there's no other way. Besides, it'll be easier to live my half-life without having to keep such a big secret to myself. Plus, they could make inventions that I could use along with what you make, Tucker. By the way, nice job on the "Delete-all" program. It worked like a charm."

Danny smiled at his confused friend and added before he opened the door, "I'll explain when the time is right. Right now we have to deal with this."

He opened the door and there stood his parents and Jazz, all waiting with what looked like disappointment etched in their faces.

Danny gulped and Tucker whispered so only he could hear, and Danny with the help of his hearing enhancer, heard, "I have a feeling the right time won't come for a while."

Danny sighed and walked forward. Sam and Tucker looked at each other as they hesitated but gathered themselves and stepped forward until they were slightly behind Danny, one on each side of him.

Maddie eyed Sam and Tucker, then looked at Danny and asked, "They should be at home, like you were supposed to be an hour ago." Danny gulped and looked at his internal clock, which read 11:04 pm.

"Uh, mom, I can explain." Maddie eyed him then pointed to the couch. He went to the couch and just as Tucker and Sam were about to follow, she put her hand in front of them and her mad expression caused two gulps, one from each of the two teens before her.

"You need to go home, now. I'm sure your parents are getting worried." Sam and Tucker looked to each other and silently agreed. "Mrs. Fenton, we already told our parents we were coming here. Though they didn't really like the idea of us coming here at night so late, but they let us."

Maddie eyed them carefully and wanted to believe them, she really did, but the way they said it, it seemed like they were trying to pull something and she didn't like the feeling.

She made her way to the phone and went to pick it up but the two shouted, "NO!" Maddie looked at them, and they smiled but added hurriedly as she went to pick it up again, "No!" causing her suspicions to heighten.

Sam added, "Uh, I swear our parents know we're here. But they don't know we're sleeping over." Sam looked nervously at Danny and he winked but it was so fast she barely caught it.

Sam smiled in a way where she barely smiled. You could only see it if you were looking for it, and he was. He saw it and they both proceeded to act a bid sad. Tucker had no idea what the two had planned and didn't really care at this point.

He was just afraid of getting grounded.

Mrs. Fenton took the phone and went to dial first Sam's parents, but found there was no dial tone. She looked around the phone and even picked it up to inspect it, but it looked fine.

Sam hadn't really expected this, but she was both amazed and relieved all the same. Tucker realized Danny had found a way to get into the phone line and had temporarily disconnected it.

Maddie looked back at Jack and he was just as confused. She looked to Jazz who seemed to be thinking. Finally Jazz walked forward and stopped when she got in between Sam and Tucker, and her mom. She pointed to the couch and the two sat down on the couch next to Danny and across from his parents and sister.

Both Maddie and Jack sat next to Jazz, one on either side of her. They heard Danny gulp right after Jazz said, "I want a full explanation as to why you three were out so late and, if you honestly know, why the phone line is somehow disconnected without being...disconnected."

Danny sighed and gathered his thoughts and was about to speak when Sam put a hand on his shoulder. She turned to him and whispered, "Are you sure?" Danny barely nodded, but Sam was close enough to notice it.

He turned back to his parents and sister then began his explanation and told them the whole truth, most of the truth anyway. He left out the details of the training and a little bit of the times, of the surgeries, wishing to forget it himself.

Suddenly Maddie burst into laughter and said, "That's the craziest story I've ever heard! You? A cyborg? There's no such thing!"

Danny sighed and added, more to himself than anyone else but still said it loud enough for the people in the room to hear, "Right, and ghosts exist?"

Just as Maddie was going to defend the fact that ghosts exist, a little ghost blob appeared as it flew through the floor and up into the room.

Danny looked from the ghost to his mom who was smirking. "See, they exist." Danny smiled as a small gun appeared out from his shoulder like his light did, and shot at it, scaring it away and back into the Ghost Zone.

Maddie stared at the small gun that was sticking out of his shoulder, which soon disappeared back into his shoulder.

Then she said both unsure and flatly, "And Cyborgs exist." Danny grinned then noticed his dad's and sister's amazed expression. Before he would call it a night, he had to tell them why he told them in the first place.

"Um, Mom, Dad, Jazz? I need to tell you something more. I feel bad about telling you my secret, because not only am I in danger from these people, but now so are you. I didn't mean to drag you into this mess. I'm sorry."

He was too caught up in his apologies, that he didn't notice his mom coming towards him until she hugged him, followed by Jack and finally Jazz. Sam and Tucker smiled to each other as they saw the family accept their son/brother's secret.

Maddie, Jack, and Jazz pulled away and Maddie remembered something that was only a few days away now. "Oh, and by the way Danny, high school starts in a week."

Danny's eyes widened then became half lidded as he sighed, "Aw, crud."