"Hey, mom, can I ask you something?" said Danny as he walked into the kitchen the next morning. He could barely sleep that night. He kept rehearing how to ask the important question to his parents and here they are, Jack messing with a new invention while stuffing his face in fudge, Maddie cooking breakfast and an empty chair where Jazz would have been, gone to school early.

"Sure honey! What is it?" Maddie said as she placed down a spoon she used for mixing. "Jack, stop stuffing or you'll choke!"

At that, Jack slowed down as Danny asked the question on his mind, "That guy that was on the News that told everyone about Phantom, do you what his name was or what he looked like?" rubbing at his neck, Danny looked everywhere but Maddie.

A pause then, "Yeah, he had that cloak on over his head and his face was shadowed. But if I had to guess, he what have black hair and brown eyes, strange if you ask me. No one should be able to cover their faces like that, unless it's a creepy ghost, but no glow, so no ghost." She said.

"What about a name? Did he ever tell you?" Danny pressed. He felt like she wasn't finished.

A long pause followed. Maddie bite her lips as she thought about what to say, Jack even stopped eating his fudge to listen to the conversation. After a minute of silent, Maddie finally said, "He told us not to tell, but you are my son and you have a right to know. Come, sit, and I'll tell you." She motioned to the table, after Danny got comfortable and Maddie sat down and Jack continued with his project, Maddie continued.

"He came at the dead of night three weeks ago, two weeks before he revealed Phantom; he came in and started asking question about Halfas. We thought he was crazy until he started popping facts and explanations that we believed to be smart. So we listened and talked about ghost, but Phantom mostly. He called himself Mr. Reklaw, strange name if you ask me. We talked late into the night, about four in the morning, and he left. Said thanks and he was on his way. He seemed nice and all, but he was on the creepy side if you ask me." When she was done, Danny was going over the story, trying to find out who this Mr. Reklaw is. Jack at the moment, stood from his chair, raised the device he was making in the air and shouted, "It is done! After three days, it is finished! Maddie, call the school, tell them it's happening today."

"Great, I'll get right onto that!" Maddie said as she stood to go to the phone, but was stopped when Danny asked, "What's going to happen today? And what's the new invention?"

Before Maddie could explain, Jack said, "This device," he said, showing Danny a cube that glowed blue with a tint of white. The edges were sharp enough to be a chef knife and on top was a black button with an X on the top. Just being a foot away from the device, it sent chills up Danny's spine. "This device is called the Fenton- Exposer!" he said in excitement as he pulled the device back and hugged it with glee. The image made Danny sick with both disgust and fear. "It is the very first Halfa finder! Today at school, all of you kids will be brought it to the gym to line up and take turns pushing the button. More details will be at school for you.

"What it will do is that if you're not a Halfa, all you will feel is a tiny vibration, so small, that you would have to have sensitive nerves to feel. So no one would get hurt!" he was so giddy, he didn't see the pale, frighten look on Danny's face. Good thing Maddie went in the living room to call the school, she would have noticed.

"But if the student with ecto-plasma in their blood is alerted, a loud siren would go off! Oh, I can't wait to find out who he is! The school can't either. They have a special program already set up for whoever the ghost kid is. Now that I and Maddie know it a kid, we no longer have the intention to hunt the kid down. We just what to find out who he is and apologize, you know, for all we have done!" and for once, Jack seemed emotional about it. Danny even calmed down a little, not much though, enough to have color back to his face.

"Yeah, I know, but I got to get going, school starts in 15 minutes." Danny said, grabbing his bag and ran to the door and shouted, "Bye mom, bye dad!" and out the door with some good news and some bad news to tell Tucker and Sam at school.

"Today is going to be one heck of a bad day!" he mumbled before heading down the road to school.