Hero

The Second Chance

Disclaimer I DON'T own Danny Phantom OR Superchick

Danny sighed and looked at the girl sitting across from him oblivious to his watchful eye. Sam Manson sat on the hard plastic bus seat a set of black headphones over her ears pumping music into her ears as she bobbed her head to the beat and a purple notebook open on her lap and she wrote things he couldn't see down in it. He sighed again and pondered the question that had haunted his mind for the past couple of months. He decided to rerun the facts over in his head one last time to see if he missed anything. Danny knew that 1. Sam was involved 2. Tucker was involved 3. A ghost was involved. Well what else was new a ghost was ALWAYS involved. He remembered back to before this nonsense started. He had been very busy with a rash of teen ghost attacks, which was very odd in itself. The estranging behavior had been undetectable at the beginning due to the fact that it had happened over a long period of time. At first it was just Sam and Tucker hanging out without Danny, then it became more frequent, then it became constant. A month ago Danny had gotten up the courage to confront Tuck and Sam. "Sam. Tucker. Are you dating secretly?" he had asked thought his heart gave a jealous twinge when he said it. Sam looked at Tucker, Tucker looked at Sam. Sam had then collapsed to the ground laughing. Tucker holding down a snicker had proceeded to reassure Danny that his suspicions were incorrect, much to Danny's relief. The explanation Tucker had produced had done nothing to explain why they had been spending so much time together.

The green and white school bus came to a halt signifying the destination had been reached. Sam stood up dusted off the black pants decorated with chain and fabric straps, front and back pockets, red rhinestone and black lace trim accents and straitened the black tee adorned with "I'm a sucker for guys in eyeliner" printed in the front that had replaced the black and purple top and green and black plaid skirt she used to wear. She exited the bus shuffling her black sneakers festooned with silver safety pin screens along the sides and an embroidered skull on the heel, Danny walking behind her. After they exited the bus Danny looked down at his own outfit realizing how much it to had changed. He wore a black T-shirt with ""Sarcasm. It beats killing people" printed in white along with blue denim pants and black skater sneakers with red trim, a Fullmetal Alchemist red alchemic logo on the tongue and side and a flame on the back. Sam immediately ran up to Tucker and started whispering. Danny slowly snuck up to them to spy on what they said. Unfortunately due to Danny and Sam's psychic connection she noticed immediately. She turned and smiled at him. "Don't worry Danny" she said sensing his worry "You'll find out tomorrow" she added with a wink that made his heart flutter. That day at school was hell for Danny. All he could think about was what was going on with Sam and it was driving him mad.

The next day as Danny boarded the bus he wondered impatiently what was going to happen in the day to come. As he looked around he realized that Sam was not on the bus. The bus ride to school had crawled by and every five seconds Danny reached down and straightened his shirt. It was his favorite a black t with "I used to have super human powers but my therapists took them away" in red text. He wore it along with his blue denim pants and red and black skater shoes. He looked throughout the bus but could find no sign of Sam; curiosity seized his mind and held his thoughts for the remainder of the bus trip.

At school as he sat in his desk, Danny made a startling discovery. Sam was not in class! (They can't be cute AND smart can they?) "Wait a minute! Maybe this has something to do with what Sam and Tucker were being so secretive about" Danny thought (give the boy a cookie). All of a sudden a voice, which Danny recognized to be Jazz's, came on the intercom shocking the comatose students out of their school-induced daze. "Attention, Attention, would all classes proceed to the auditorium for an assembly on bullying. Thank you" Danny sighed, "Great, this will be interesting. Some adult droning on about how bad bullying is while no one listens."

The whole school crammed into auditorium was not very comfortable. Danny noticed that all the chairs had been removed and all the students and teachers were standing up in front of a curtained off stage. He began to panic was this another maniac ghosts plan to rule the minds of teens? Jazz came out onto the still curtained stage and said "Please welcome our special guests here to talk to you about bullying." Or it could be that. The curtains opened to reveal four shrouded figured swathed in darkness making them unrecognizable. "Hello we are The Second Chance and were here to play for you." Said one of the mysterious figures. The voice was distinctly female but recognizable. "First is Amber on guitar and back up vocals." A single spotlight went on illuminating one of the shrouded figures. It was Ember McLain, but she looked and felt different. Her normally blue hair was flaming red and her skin was tinted a soft peach. In place of her normal black pants and top were a waist cincher with a red satin body with lace all around it, black mesh trim along the top, black lace layers along the bottom and a black ribbon closure. As well as black and red pants loaded with pockets! There were zip and snap pockets, snap belt loops, red and white stitching, drawstrings at legs and red trim on the inside of each pant leg. In place of her horribly trashy gray boots (I'm sorry but I think they are very tacky) were black boots with two silver buckles and a red flame on the heel. Also she had gotten rid of the tasteless black make up and red lipstick (it previously looked like she had gotten in a fight with a tube of mascara and was thoroughly trounced) and traded it in for a lighter layer of liquid eyeliner that curled up on either side of her eyes layered with sparkling red eye shadow on top. Her clothes weren't the only things that changed; her aura was calmer now. It no longer screamed 'I want to take over the world mwahahaha'. "Next is Dex on drums" said the still shrouded voice. A second spot light went on showing a pale boy with messy black hair. Danny was shocked again; it was Pointdexter. He was distinctively less recognizable due to the fact he had switched his coke-bottle glasses in for a more sleek and stylish black pair. Also the fact he was no longer glowing and floating helped, he looked human. No longer in his nerdy outfit he wore a black "Chicks dig scrawny pale guys" T-shirt and baggy blue jeans much like Danny's. His aura also held no malice; it was unnaturally calm even for a human. "On turntables and vocals of course is Tucker" Danny almost choked on his tongue when a spotlight fell on Tucker. He was wearing a baggy blood red hoodie with a small black C2 surrounded by a gold halo insignia over his heart. Danny noticed that the logo was also on Ember oops Amber's guitar and Dex's drums (he's a little slow on the draw). He was still wearing his normal baggy brown pants but had lost his burette but gained new smaller square glasses. Tucker's hair was neatly braided back in cornrows giving him a more mature look. In front of him was a large turntable and on his ears old school headphones. Suddenly another spotlight went on with no prior introduction. To Danny and the rest of the crowd's surprise there was no one under it. Abruptly the voice resumed "And finally the lead singer and founder of The Second Chance…"

Yes I am pulling a cliffhanger so sue me. Btw the words inside the brackets are me talking.