Chapter Six: Waking Up On the Wrong Side of the Dimension

Danny floated there, rubbing his eyes.

I must be seeing things. How can the whole town just vanish?

Danny's suspicions from last night were confirmed. Something was definitely going on here. But how was this connected with turning the town against him?

Maybe it's invisible, Danny wondered.

He touched down on the dirt path of the city's outer limits. He took to walking around slowly and with his hands out in front of him, sure that he was going to slam into an invisible building.

He had a mad thought about the invisible town's people laughing at his funny attempts to not bang into anything, but it was dashed by another crazy thought.

What if they were somehow intangible?

Walker and his goons didn't have that much power. Danny stopped, fear flooding him as a single realization slapped him harder than if he had walked into a building.

I'd still hear them…

There was no way to silence a whole city! They really must somehow be gone.

Sam…Mom, Dad, Jazz, Tucker, everyone!

Just when he was going to get to the bottom of all their strange behavior! One thing was for sure. Danny was dealing with one super powerful ghost, or an army of them.

Or both…

Danny was so lost in trying to make sense of everything that he hardly noticed when his ghost sense went off.

Reflexes slow from the sheer shock of everything; he didn't manage to block his surprise attack from behind.

He felt a slight pinching in his shoulder. Suddenly he felt very tired. His eyelids started to drop. He felt completely exhausted, but still tried to fight the dark edges creeping into his vision. Out of nowhere something punched him hard in the face and everything succumbed to the welcoming darkness.

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Danny jerked awake, gasping for breath. The first thing he noticed was he was in the ghost zone. Not just that, but he was in a ghost's lair that he didn't recognize in the slightest.

The second thing he noticed after a sharp pain in his wrists caught his attention, he was bound skin tight by the wrists and ankles. At least his feet were being supported by the floor and not his binds.

The third thing he saw after surveying his restrictions was he was in human form.

That must have happened when he blacked out. But then the questions remained, how were these ghost chains holding him in human form? Unless they were real world items?

Danny tried to transform. The familiar rings of light appeared around his wrist, but then vanished at once before getting any further then simple appearance.

Then he remembered the pain in his shoulder. Did he get some kind of shot of something?

He tried again, concentrating really hard. This time the rings didn't even appear.

"Just great," he muttered.

Since he was stuck there anyway, he studied his surroundings, willing himself to recognize something. He was in a small, square room. A closed door stood to his right and to his left was a rectangular table with a strange clear dome thing around…something.

It was really hard to see it clearly. When he craned his head to the side his arm partially blocked his view.

He gasped. With all the surprises in the past few days, he was more surprised that he could still even be surprised.

Incased in the dome was what looked like a miniature model of the whole Amity Park. But it was eerily detailed down to every last cross walk and window.

Danny tried examining it closer. His eyes went wide.

I could've sworn…

He breathed in sharply. He had.

Danny was sure he saw something move within the dome.

Amity is missing, this dome, could it really be?

His eyes darted around wildly and then he saw it, sticking out from underneath the table. It was just the tip of the white handle, and he only saw it because he was looking for it.

The Fenton Crammer!

Then it hit him!

SKULKER!

When he saw him yesterday before he went to the park and….

Danny shook the thought away. Skulker had gotten away from him then, and he was the only ghost who knew about the crammer. But this wasn't Skulker's island!

He saw more and more movement in the dome by his side. The tallest building only came from his navel to his ribs. Danny's lips twitched in very slight amusement at his only source of measurement. He felt like he was losing it, but if anyone else discovered that their entire town had been shrunk down and trapped in the ghost zone by some unknown captor, he doubted they would handle it much better.

The table began at his hips and the dome didn't go much higher than that.

If he looked really closely, Danny could even make out the tiny residents of Amity Park crowding around the edge of the dome to get a good look at him. They never left it though.

Then Danny remembered of something he wished he hadn't.

"I improved the ghost shield too, it works on ghosts AND humans, you kids have fun."

That must be it…

Danny didn't like this one bit. He couldn't see a way out of this. Whoever was behind this, really knew what he was doing. He couldn't let everyone else know that though. Even if they were all acting of their own will when they rejected him, he knew he wasn't going to ever stand by and let someone else get hurt again.

He'd die before he'd let that happen. His eyes narrowed and his face was set in determination.

"Don't worry," he comforted. It was very strange to speak softly and know that he was addressing his entire home town. "I know none of you trust me, but I swear I won't let anything happen to you."

He wished he could at least make out their reactions, or hear clearly what they were saying. He didn't even want to think about what he must look like to them. If they were scared of him before, he could only imagine how frightened they must be of him when he looked like a giant.

"There you go again Daniel, making promises you can't keep," said an icy voice that sent goosebumps down Danny's arms.

Out of the shadows walked a large ghost. He was completely pitch black; the only obstruction to the endless black were his merciless eyes which shined in sick delight. His outline looked completely human. Like a tall, thin but well-built, man.

Danny saw red. All he could think about was the black flash he saw before the town was taken, and more importantly, the shadow thing he saw before that man was killed.

And then he realized the horrible truth. He was at this freak's mercy, along with everyone he had ever met and cared about.

He spoke again, in a sickly sweet voice that oozed with evil.

"Hello Daniel, my name is Vapor Drone."

Danny gulped.

No he definitely didn't like this.

TBC

A/N first and foremost I must once again thank my amazing beta, SailorSea! Thanks again! I am sorry for the super shortness of this chapter. I really wanted chapter five to end where it did and I wanted this to end here. The rest of the story will be in much longer chapters. Someone guessed very smartly that the villain of this story would be Nocturne, and although that would make perfect sense, I needed this to be an OC. I hope the fact that you realize it's an OC now doesn't through anyone off this story. Anyway, thanks so much for reading. I will try to have chapter seven out as soon as possible.