Family
A Danny Phantom FanFiction by Cordria
…this is the 100 drabble challenge of a connected variety that will go in an order that resembles chapters so this collection of singular one-shots will kind of look a lot like a full-fledged fiction…
Drabble 1: Introduction
He pulled his silver hair back into a ponytail, deftly securing the long hair with a small clip. Today was the day that everything was going to change. Today, his long-worked-for dreams were going to come true.
Too excited to bother using the elevator, he phased straight through the floor and down into his underground lab. Screens blinked to life when his feet quietly tapped against the ground, computers hummed in the background, and the entire lab smelled of warm computers and cool ectoplasm. He took a deep breath, smelling everything, looking around with satisfaction.
"Perfect," he whispered.
"Did-did you say something, Cupcake?" a metallic female voice asked. A very expensive next-generation hologram shimmered into view. Although badly rendered and horribly two-dimensional, the man grinned with delight.
"Maddie! Is everything ready?" he asked the digitized woman.
The hologram tipped its head to the side and fizzled. "Y-yes."
His smile grew, his eyes dancing with happiness. Making his way across the immaculate lab, the man stopped before a bank of computer screens and studied the information. "We've got enough materials? Enough energy? Enough data?"
"I said-said-said everything was re-ready," the hologram answered with what might have been a smile.
He turned around to face four coffin-like tubes. Each was filled with a greenish fluid that bubbled slowly as it released its ambient energy into the air. The tubes were connected to impossibly complex banks of computers and monitors, blank at the moment but ready to jump into life and compute trillions of calculations a second. At the center of the four was one large, red button.
"This is what I've been waiting for… for years," he whispered as he stared down at the button. One press of the button and part of his dreams would come true. "Someone to call my own. It's not Maddie… or Daniel… but it's close."
"Shall I-I start the-the-the program?"
He nodded. "Remind me to fix that stutter of yours too."
"Relea-releasing protein mixture. Releasing deoxyribonucleic acid-acid-acid infused cells." The hologram floated a few feet closer. "Commence-mence energy saturation when you are read-ready, Sweetie."
His hand hovered over the button for a few minutes. Dreams of the perfect son flittered through his mind. With a smile unlike any that had graced his face in decades, he pushed the button and watched the four tubes glow and fizzle with energy.
For the first time in years, Vlad Masters was going to have a family.
Family is not who you have or what they can do…
it's the love that grows despite everything that can come between you.