Charlie and I ran into the entrance of the facility. I had chomped down all of my food. We still had our disguises on and we walked into the entrance. There were two Varnie Tech guards that were hired to guard the door. They wore full white suits and ties and they had shades on and were ripped. They stood there with arms crossed and determined to not let us pass. We walked up towards them.

“We’d like to speak to Dr. Varnie.” I said.

“Absolutely not.” one of the guards said. “Varnie isn’t up for walk-in visitors.”

“Okay.” I said. I walked right through them. I started walking through the halls and towards the elevator and they started to scream and chase me. They continued to pass through me and then they said something.

“Who are you?” they ask.

“A ghost.” I said. I toss my mask on the floor and the two come rushing at me. Their punches pass through me as I jump on their arms and them down to the floor. All of that muscle for nothing. Charlie whips off his disguise and the two of us walk in. We walk to the elevator, slam a button and head inside. Abigail rushes in and panics when she sees the guards on the floor. She pulls out her phone.

“Father. Eric has returned. He’s here to kill you and avenge his parents.” says Abigail.

“Don’t worry about me. I have an X-ray on my scouter. I will see everything that AGENT is plotting.” says Varnie. “I will be sure to give them a warm welcome.”

“Okay..” says Abigail. “Just promise me you won’t die.”

“I won’t.” he says. The elevator opens at the factory room with all of the conveyors running through the massive opening. This area had a white concrete platform and one at the end of the room. A button that activated an expandable bridge between the two was facing us. Below the bridge, there was a massive storage unit and conveyors that lead into an incinerator. These areas were all dark grey metal and all of Varnie’s guards came to surround us. Jordan was being hung from the top above the incinerator.

“Jordan!” I yelled.

“Eric!” says Jordan. “What happened to your eye?”

“That’s not important right now.” I said. Charlie and I were surrounded by the guard who worked for Varnie. There were 10 of them and they all had guns aiming at our heads. Charlie grabbed a pipe and started to spin it for momentum. They all shot and the bullets all bounced off his pipe and one even hit another guard. I ran towards a guard who held an AK47 and he fired his weapon as all of the bullets went through my body.

“No way!” he yelled. I jumped over him as I passed through him and kicked him right in the face from the back as he flew into a wall. The others started to shoot at me and Charlie shot them both in the chest as they collapsed to the ground. The other 6 began to gang up as I grabbed the pipe and passed through all of their gunshots and clonked three with the pipe. Charlie came in when they were distracted and with some martial arts, took them down to the ground.

“You guys did it!” says Jordan. “Now LET ME DOWN!”

We clicked the button and the bridge opened up as we ran towards him. Suddenly the bridge was shot by some laser and it broke and we fell down onto the boiling dark grey metal flooring, right next to the conveyors and the incinerators, where Jordan was being hung up on top of. We looked up and saw two massive dark grey metal robots, 3 metres tall with the Phantom logo as their head. Dr. Varnie stood up there with the cloak on.

“Eric,” he says. “We meet again.”

“I was wondering when you’d show up.” I said.

“It’s too bad I have to kill off such a perfect family of geniuses off.” he says. “Kill them all.”

The Phantom droids started to fire their weapons. They were blasters of lasers out of their arm cannons. Luckily, they were super slow, so dodging would be easy for Charlie. They kept firing at me and it did no damage. It just passed through me. Charlie jumped onto the walls and shot the rope as he caught Jordan, he jumped over the incinerator and put him on his feet.

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“Thanks, Charlie.” says Jordan. “I want to help Eric.”

“No.” he says. “Let’s deal with the robots. Let Eric finish Varnie. That’s what I was told by AGENT in a quick call some time ago.”

“That eye,” says Varnie. “It’s turned you into a ghost of your former self.”

I bounced off the walls and the robots stomped towards me and I passed right through them and Varnie stood still. I put my hand out for his neck and he grabbed me by the arm.

“Argh!” I grunted.

“Eric. Eric.” he says. “To think, I’ve already outsmarted you.”

He takes his swords from his waist and attempts to take my arm and the sword phases through my arm.

“What?” he asks. I aim my leg and kick him with my right leg right into the wall. The robots turn to Jordan and Charlie. They start to fire lasers and they jump down to the layer with the incinerator and conveyors. They fire lasers and Jordan shoots ice at them and the explosion propels both parties back. Charlie shot his pistols at the head and the other robot guarded the first one with its arm. The bullet bounces off and lands inside of the incinerator.

Varnie shoots lasers out of his glowing eye and I dodge it as I slide to the right. I dodge all of the lasers and then run up to Varnie to fight in close range. He had his two swords and I was fighting unarmed. He began to slash his swords as I began phasing and materialising back and forth. I punch him and kick him and he punches me. We spar in the middle as he dodges my punches and kicks me. This kick passes through me as he plants his foot down for balance. I flick him away as he is propelled backwards. He shoots an eye laser beam and I jump into the air. Dodging the attack. I leap toward him as I go for a kick. He blocks and then opens his eyes to see that I had my kick phase through him.

“What!” he said. His hand was still in a guard formation as I made a 180 turn and knocked his sword out with the back of my left leg. His sword fell onto the ground and I picked it up. He shoots a beam and I dodge it by grabbing the sword.

“I’ma kill you with your own sword, Varnie.” I said. I landed on the ground. The robots continued to fire lasers and Jordan created an ice shield as they started to penetrate through the shield. Charlie has an idea.

“Jordan,” he says. “Can you make an icicle?”

“I can.” says Jordan. “Why?”

“I have a plan.”

Jordan makes two icicles and hands them to Charlie. The ice shield breaks and then Charlie runs towards the robots and they fire at Charlie. Jordan shoots ice and that cancels the lasers out in mid-air. Charlie smashes the robots with the icicles as this stuns them.

“JORDAN NOW, ICE!” he yells.

“I know.” says Jordan. He charges the ice in his hands and the air becomes frosty. His hands glow white as ice begins to materialise into his hands. He shoots it at the robots and this launches them onto the large conveyors.

Varnie runs up towards me with his sword and I put out the sword to block him and I then pass through him and slide on the ground as I turn around and toss the sword and he catches it with his reflexes.

“Damn.” I said. “I better destroy that eye.”

He takes the sword out and runs towards me and we fight in close combat. He outmatches me in speed and I am overwhelmed as he kicks me in the chest. I cough up blood and he takes his swords and aims at my eye as I am thrusted backwards towards the wall. I look at him and open my green eyes wide as he passes through me. He falls right through me and I flip around as he drops his swords. I turn around and aim my hand for the choke hold as I grab him and I clench him by the throat as he lies on the ground and I squeeze as hard as I can and he shoots the laser and I jump away. His mouth drips of blood. I pick up the swords.

Jordan and Charlie stand on the conveyors as they dodge the blasts from the robots and the four get closer to the incinerator. The robots see this and they start to move.

“Oh no you don’t!” says Jordan. He shoots ice onto the feet of the robot, This freezes the two stuck onto the conveyor. Charlie and Jordan hold them tight. I run towards Varnie with the swords in hand. The two of us engage in a close combat fight as I dominate, due to holding the weapons. I pass through his kicks and kick him back as he lands on the ground. He gets up. I run towards Varnie with my swords in hand and we run towards each other as I pass through him. I slide to flip directions and I run for Varnie and he turns around and sees a sword from me flying into his direction. He catches the sword and then I appear in his face and grab him in a chokehold. He drops the sword. Abigail runs into the room and sees what’s happening.

“DAD!” she yells.

Varnie looked at Abigail as she ran in. The robots fell into the incinerator and were burned into a crisp. Jordan and Charlie got off the conveyor. The two of them get onto the top platform. They stood behind Abigail. I held him in another chokehold and he was clutched to the wall. He realises that I didn’t have the other sword. When he looks at Abigail, the other sword comes in and stabs right into his blue eye. This destroys the eye and stabs right through his skull. Not all the way. He lands on the ground as I let go.

“It’s over.”

Abigail came over crying as she took a rock and threw it at me. It passed through me.

“What have you done?” she says. She comes over to her father who was covered in blood. My serious expression changes into a tension as I look at my arms, covered in blood. I look at them wide open. My heartbeat started beating faster as I coughed and the loud sound went away. Suddenly, the incinerator started to explode and the whole area started to collapse and fill up with radiation. The robots had actually been made of urisnium. When the urisnium caught on fire from the chemical incinerator, it activated a nuclear reaction. The room began to fill up with green smoke as the three of us ran out of there. I waited at the door when I had seen Abigail’s tears.

“Let’s go Eric.” says Charlie as he pulls my arm. I followed them out of the facility and it started to implode. Abigail held her father’s hand.

“Father.” she says.

“I’m sorry daughter.” she says. “I guess I got too full of myself. It was a fun ride.”

Abigail sobbed.

“You know my dream. As a Varnie, as my child, you will team up with Phantom and make my dream a reality.” says Varnie slowly. “I'm counting on you.”

He hands a key out of his pocket.

“This key has access to a rocket blueprint I had saved in Munich.”

“Father.” she says. “I will make your dream a reality.”

“Now go!” he said as he coughed.

Abigail ran out of the facility and the whole thing collapsed.