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Chapter 1: The mysterious Phantom in Amity Park.
Above the town of Amity Park, Danny cruised through the air, relaxing with every second. Summer vacation was coming to an end, so he was using the peaceful chance to relax. Since the beginning of summer, ghosts were making their appearance and causing much trouble as they could. There were times where he had time to himself, girlfriend and best friend. But sadly summer was coming to an end.
It's been a year since Danny had saved the world from the Disasteroid. Ever since then he had gained popularity and everything was going nicely for him. The town no longer saw him as a threat and the GIW had stopped hunting him….after three weeks his identity was discovered. Best of all he had a girlfriend who used to be his best friend and his family supported him in every way.
Danny enjoyed every second he cruised the air. He wanted to enjoy more, but then he felt a cold shudder down his spine and a blue wisp escaped his mouth.
"Oh, great." He groaned sarcastically and flew off to find the ghost. It wasn't long that he found the ghost that triggered his ghost sense. Over the months, he had developed a way that he could use his ghost sense to also locate the ghost responsible.
He flew to the streets of people running and screaming in fear at what appeared to be a short, fart, chubby ghost with red eyes in ridiculous overalls waving his hands in a 'scary' way.
"Run weak humans! For I, The Box Ghost shall conquer your boxes!"
Danny flew up behind the ghost, making sure not to alert him. It was easy for him mostly because the Box Ghost kept laughing his 'evil' laugh. Danny tapped the ghost shoulder, alerting the ghost of his presence. The Box Ghost ceased his laughing as he felt someone tap him and turned behind him. He came to face the opening of Fenton Thermos and before he could react he was sucked inside by a blur flash of light.
Danny snickered, "Same old Box ghost. You think he'd stay for the forty eighth time in the ghost zone." He capped the lid and flew off to a familiar direction.
But unknown to him, a shadowy figure with red eyes was watching from an alley.
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As he drew closer to his destination, Danny could see the Nasty Burger. He reduced his speed as he arrived and landed on the ground, changing back to normal. Two rings formed at his waist, going up and down as it changed him to normal. His snow white hair and glowing green eyes changed to black raven hair and blue sky eyes and his DP jumpsuit changed to a pure white shirt underneath a black leather jacket and dark jeans.
Danny walked to the door of the nasty burger and opened it. He found the place was less packed than usual, but it didn't bother him. He liked few numbers of teens hanging out with their friends without giving him any glances. It had been a while since his fans stopped bothering him and got use to him. Danny could relate his life to a superhero teen called Ben Tennyson, though he didn't know much about him.
Danny smiled as he saw a table booth with his friends and girlfriend sat. A blond muscular boy dressed in a jock uniform waved at him from the table. Danny walked to the table and sat next to a Goth girl dressed in a purple shirt and black jeans with skills on it. Across them was the blond jock boy and a thirteen year old girl that resembled Danny. She was dressed in red jeans and wore a blue hoodie.
"Hey, guys. Sorry, I'm late." Danny said as he sat closer to his girlfriend, Sam.
"No need to apologize, Danny." His girlfriend smiled at him, "At least you're not late like someone we know."
"You can't blame Tucker, Sam. He's the mayor of Amity Park and he's been busy lately."
"Yeah, you're right." Sam answered, knowing it was true.
Danny turned from his girlfriend and to the blond jock, "Hey, Dash, how's your summer vacation in Dimmsdale?"
"It was ok." Dash shrugged, "Though strange things were happening, but other than that it was fine." He got off his seat as he prepared to leave, "I better get our take outs. Back in a minute." He told them before walking to the cashier to get their orders.
Danny watched the jock for a moment, thinking about what he said about his summer vacation. But he shrugged it off his mind as he looked at his foster cousin, "So Dani, how's it been living with Sam for a week?"
It had been a month since Danny, Sam and Tucker reprogrammed the Booooooomerang to find Dani. It led them into Queen Dora's kingdom where they found Dani living with her. Danny got well with Dora before finally asking Dani to return with him to the human world she could be part of his family. But sadly, Dani turned down the offer, saying she wanted to explore the world more before settling down to join a family. However, she promised to visit as often as she could.
"It's great! Sam is totally awesome." Dani answered with a smirk, "You better not blow this relationship, Mr. Oblivious." Sam laughed at the humor Dani implied, but stopped as Dani shot a glare at her.
Just then, the entrance doors of the Nasty Burger opened as an American-African walked inside. The teen was dressed in a green shirt, brown pants and wearing a brown trench coat.
"Hey guys!" He waved at Danny, Sam and Dani. He sat next to Dani, "So what did I miss?"
"Nothing much." Danny shrugged, "What about you?"
"Nothing, other than talking about the ghost budget we're setting up…OW!" Tucker was interrupted as he earned a light punch to the elbow by Sam. He turned to her with an angry glare, "What was that for!"
"You were about to talk about the budget to us teenagers." Sam replied.
"Oh." Tucker blushed in embarrassment.
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After an hour of talking and hanging out with each other, the teens went to different places top hang out. They went bowling, fishing and hang out at the docks to enjoy each other company. But eventually time went by and soon the sun began to set. Danny and his friends began to leave as they watched the beautiful sun set go by and bringing the nigh close.
Danny stretched his hand to straighten his hand, "We still have three hours before out curfew. What else should we do?"
"Play Doom." Sam answered, standing up from the dock.
Tucker muttered to himself, "Yeah so she could kick our butts." Before he could react, Sam kicks to the water at him, causing him to shiver, "Men this is cold!" He shivered.
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The next few hours in Sam's house were great for Team Phantom. Danny, Sam and Tucker played Doom, beating other opponents from different parts of the world. They were so good in the game that they were nominated the greatest in the game. With Sam's knowledge of the game, they were able to get to higher levels they never knew existed.
Dash and Dani played bowling in the bowling area of Sam's basement. Dani kicked Dash's butt in the game as she won more scores than he could. Dash would have been with his popular friends, but he preferred having fun with Danny and his team. He especially liked the friendship that was growing with him and Dani over the past week she stayed with Sam.
Eventually, time for fun was over as it almost neared ten o' clock. They said their goodbyes to each other before they left Sam's home. Dash left with Tucker's in his limo, Dani flew off so she could arrive to the city of New Jersey where she heard there are frequent robot attacks and Danny flew to the skies. He had been concerned about Dani leaving, but remembered she could handle herself. He only hoped that she would eventually settle down in Amity Park.
The night was quiet with minority of people and cars seen on the streets. Danny flew through the air as he was heading to his room. He was just a few blocks from Fentonworks when an ecto blast flew passed him. His ghost sense triggered at that moment and he turned to his right to see Skulker.
The self proclaimed hunter had a grin on his face as he had a missile packs from his shoulders, "Hello, ghost child. Today is the day that I, Skulker, Ghost zone greatest hunter gets your pelt as my trophy." He then fired the missiles straight at Danny. But having dealt with Skulker many times, Danny easily shot the missiles causing them to explode.
"Keep dreaming, Skulker." Danny said as he powered his ice powers on his fist. His body then glowed green and he duplicate appeared next to him. His duplicate flew straight at Skulker while Danny became invisible. The duplicate took Skulker's attention as it shot an ecto blast at him. Skulker easily dodged the blast and fired an ecto blast from a wrist gun. The blast hit the duplicate at the chest and it dissipated to a mist.
However, Skulker knew the fight wasn't over as he began looking around him. He was looking everywhere for Danny, but couldn't find him.
"Show yourself, Whelp!" Skulker shouted to the air, "I know you're here."
"Really? Cause I thought I had you." Skulker could hear Danny's voice from behind him. In a swift move he turned behind him and shot the ecto blast. But it didn't hit anything. He then felt someone tap his metal shoulder and unconsciously turned behind him to see Danny, "Miss me." He then threw a hard ecto punch to his head, causing it to fall out of its body and plummet to the ground.
Without Skulker's head, his robot body plummets to the ground right next to its head, "Drats!" A small and weak voice shouted. Danny flew down to the ground, a Fenton thermos in his hand.
"As always, Skulker you fail and again I'm late for my curfew." Danny said as he uncapped the thermos. A bright blue light came out and sucked Skulker's head into the thermos. Danny moved the body and sucked it into the thermos. He capped the thermos and flew off to his home. Since he was just a few blocks from Fentonworks he was in front of his room window. He felt too tired that he phased through his window and slump down on his bed without a second thought. The moment he slept off the two familiar blue rings washed over his body changing him back to normal.
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The next day, the sun rose out of the horizon to signify another day. The rays of the sun peeked through Danny's window and reflected to his face. As a response, Danny let out a weak moan and moved to his other side. All wanted to do was sleep for some extra time. But then he felt his phone vibrate from his pants pocket. It woke him up, though he felt tired as he dug out his phone.
He glanced at the ID name on the phone before answering the phone, "Hello, Sam. What…."
"Turn on your TV!" Sam voice came out urgently. Danny was confused, but knew better to do as she said. He grabbed the TV remote next to his bed and pressed the button to the TV. As the TV came on, Tiffany Snow, Amity Park anchor woman was on the news.
"We continue on the story that has gotten all of Amity Parks baffled." Next to her, a square snapshot of a person appeared. It was an image of a teen dressed in a jumpsuit that resembled Danny Phantom, except the teen had some features. He wore a black and white jumpsuit with an upper body armor that has an SN insignia on the chest. He wore a white cloak and a black cape that carried the same insignia. Along these, he wore black and green stripe ghost gauntlet.
"It is still unknown of who he is. He was last discovered and captured on this film." The screen then went off from Tiffany Snow as it began the clip. It started on the sidewalks at night time as the cameraman and an African American boy dressed in a basketball player green uniform were walking. From the looks of the video there was no sign of anyone other than the two boys.
"Remind me again, T J. Why are we here so late?" The African boy yawned.
The kid holding the camera, presumed to be TJ answered, "Because the Ashleys dared me. I'll just show them I can get footage of Danny Phantom fighting."
The teen sighed, "Look, TJ. It's late and there's no way that….." He was interrupted at the sound of an explosion taking place. The two boys instantly forgot about their talk as they turned to the source of the explosion.
Just then, the cloak teen from the pic flew past them and right behind him was a giant ghost hawk.
"What was that?!" The black teen asked.
"Don't you mean who it's chasing." From the sound of his voice, TJ seem to be smirking.
The video continued as TJ video the fight between the strange ghost teen and the ghost hawk. The ghost teen turned around to face the hawk as it began shooting green ecto blasts at it. However, the blasts seem to be with no effect as the hawk flew straight at him. It tried bite him with its huge beak, but the he flew out of the way. The ghost teen then flew a few meters from him, the gauntlets attached to his wrist brought out sharp ecto blades.
"Come get me bird brain." The ghost teen said. The ghost hawk replied as it released a lion roar and flew straight at him. The ghost hawk tried to smack its beak at him, but the ghost teen flew out of the way and struck its throat. As a result, the bird let out an ear piercing screams and plummets to the ground. The ghost teen then flew down to and sucked the ghost into a Fenton thermos.
"Wow." The African teen and the boy TJ awed. Then without a second thought, TJ ran to the ghost teen, mostly pointing the camera to his face, "Who are you?" He asked.
The ghost teen glanced at him and playfully saluted, "Shadow, Shadow Phantom." Then he flew off to the sky, the footage coming to an end.
The screen then returned back to Tiffany Snow, "According to others, He might be Danny Fenton long lost brother, while others says he might be a stronger version of Danny phantom or got his abilities the same way Phantom did. For more information of the discovery please stand by." She shifts to some papers on the table and began to read, "In other world news Teen hero, Kim Possible has….."
Danny turns off the TV and got off from bed. He was thinking about the news and was baffled about it. But at the moment he didn't want to think much about it. He walked to his bathroom so he could get ready for school. He took a shower, got dressed and walked down the stairs to the kitchen. As he got there he met the sight of his family.
His mum, Maddie Fenton was cooking their breakfast; luckily she had improved since last year. On the table, Jazz read a book, reading it with much interest while Jack worked on the ecto crammer to improve it. Danny walked to take a seat and wait for his breakfast.
"Hi, sweetie." Maddie smiled, "How did you sleep?"
"Fine. Did you guys check this morning news?"
Jazz put down her book and answered, "Yeah, we did. Mom and I were wondering who he could be. Any idea?"
"No clue." Danny shook his head, "Besides, I'm not going to allow that ruin my first day of school."
"That's the way to go, Danny boy!" Jack said.
Maddie came and placed their breakfast on the table and they began to eat. The meal was good, which meant she was improving. Of course they made sure to separate any ectoplasm from any food related stuff, so that helped.
Danny gulped down his lunch and grabbed his bag before heading to the door. But as soon as he opened it, flashes were sent to his eyes. In reflex, he shielded his eyes and turned away. The reporters at his front door kept flashing their cameras and asking him question. Danny didn't bother to ask, but slam the door shut. His family quickly rushed in, curious about what happened.
"Danny, what's wrong?" Maddie asked.
"Was it a ghost?" Jack added with a wicked grin.
Danny rubbed his eyes due to the sudden flashes before answering, "No. It was just those reporters."
"I thought they stopped a few months ago." Jazz said.
"Well apparently this new Phantom has gotten their attention." Danny shot a glare at the door, most specifically the reporters. The door was barricaded by the reporters and if things were like last year, they would be surrounding the house. Danny looked back at his family, a determined look on his face and threw his hands in the air, "I'm not going to let them stop me. I'm goin' ghost!"
Two rings appeared around his waist, one went up and the other down. His normal clothes were changed into his DP jumpsuit, from Fenton to Phantom and to human to superhero. Standing in Danny Fenton place was the Amity Park hero, Danny Phantom.
"Bye." With that said, he took off and flew through the ceiling intangible.
Danny kept flying away from his voice, invisible in case of helicopters. His family could handle the reporters, but if he had waited then he would be late on his first day of school. It was the first day for him as a sophomore and he wasn't going to let anything ruin it.
As he made distance between him and home, he became tangible and visible. He could see the school coming into closer view and smiled.
"I'm actually going to make it."
"Don't be so sure, whelp." Skulker suddenly appeared in front of him with a grin. Before Danny could react, he shot an ecto net at him, sending voltage of pain through his body. Due to its effect, Danny couldn't sustain himself in the air and crashed to the ground.
Danny tried to break free, but the net was strong. Despite the electric shock from it ceased, Danny was still trapped in it. Skulker flew down to the ground, a blade from his knuckle.
"What do you think of it, Whelp?" He continued with his smirk, "I specially made this so you can't phase through."
"Wait so I can't become intangible in this?" Danny perked his eyebrow, a smirk beginning to form on his face.
Skulker didn't seem aware of it because of his pride, "Of course, but that means…Uh oh." The hunter's eyes flew wide.
Danny cocked a smirk at him before his body aura changed to blue. From the blue aura, he used his ice power on it, freezing and weakening it. He then shot ecto rays from his eyes, cutting the thing and breaking free. The net fell off his body and he got back to his feet with a glowing ecto fist.
"So Skulker got any new surprises?" Danny flew straight at the self proclaimed hunter and threw a hard punch.
The force from his fist sent him flying to the ground. However, before he could hit the ground, he activated his jetpacks, suspending him from hitting the ground. Skulker looked up at Phantom and flew straight at him, shooting ecto missiles and various blasts. Danny hovered prepared and maneuvered his way from getting him while sending ecto blasts at the hunter.
The two clashed, but Danny was clearly stronger, having fought the hunter before. He disappeared from sight as a mist, confusing Skulker. The self proclaimed hunter looked around, trying to find Danny, but unaware that he appeared behind him. Danny tapped the shoulder of Skulker, getting his attention and threw a punch. As a result, Skulker flew through the air and hit a light post.
As Skulker lay on the ground, Danny flew down to him, holding up ecto ball, "Seriously, Skulker must we always do this? You come to fight me, I kick your butt and now is the part I suck you into the thermos."
"True, ghost child." A grin then formed on his face, "But I've learned something from you."
"Yeah and what's that?" Danny asked.
"Team work."
Before Danny could come to terms of his word, a purple sonic blast hit him from behind. It forced him flying through the air before making collision with the ground.
Danny sat up, groaning from the impact, "Men what hit me?"
"I did, Dipstick." said a female voice. Danny looked before him, where the voice came from and found Ember McClain, hovering before him. She held her usual guitar, "If you know what's good for you I'll suggest you stay there so I can get this over with."
Danny snickered, "Yeah, good thing I don't take suggestion from you."
Immediately, he became intangible and phased through the ground. Ember glared at where he once sat before turning to her back and struck a few strings, shooting a blast of purple sonic wave. She knew Danny was there and of course she was right. Her attack hit Danny before he could react, sending him through the air. However, he halts himself and flew right back at her.
Seeing Phantom coming, she turned the dial on her guitar, "If you want to get me this bad, then how about an electrifying surprise."
Ember struck her strings, sending purple lightening blasts. Danny dodged through them, but a few nearly hit him. Ember kept firing at him, determined to hit him with every blast. Her plan seems to be working as Danny pulled back and flew over her. But she kept firing at him anywhere he flew, even when he maneuvered his way to her.
She increased her strike on the strings and shot more lightening at him. Danny came to a halt before he disappeared in a blue mist, avoiding the attack. Ember snarled at where he stood.
"Where are you, Dipstick!" She yelled angrily.
"Over here."
Ember turned back, to the direction his voice came from. But she got hit by the chest and was sent flying to the ground. Danny smirked at this, despite being late for school. He flew down to her and touched down on the ground, smiling with a grin.
"Look let's make this quick okay." Danny said and brought out the Fenton thermos. He pointed it at Ember, the mouth of the device power up to suck her inside.
Danny was just about to fire when he gasped and a blue wisp escaped his lips. The warning came out of a sudden that it was too late to react. A glowing green rope wraps around his waist and pulled him away, causing him to drop the thermos. He was pulled to the face of the person, none other than Skulker.
The self proclaimed hunter gripped his collar and glared at him straight at the eye, "It's over, whelp. I will have you're pelt."
Danny held up a finger, "Okay first Eww and second…bye." In Skulker's grip, he disappeared as a mist.
Skulker first gasped before clutching the air in anger. He whipped back behind him just as Danny came charging at him. The Phantom hero began to shoot rapid blasts at him; blasting away his hands and legs. Skulker activated his back jets and took off from Danny, but the young phantom gave pursuit.
"Where are you running to Skulker?" Danny charged up another ecto blast and shot at Skulker. It hit with a perfect hit, causing the jets to explode and other suspending Skulker in the air.
"Oh pop." Skulker pouted before falling to the ground.
Danny flew down to him. He found Skulker lying in a crater on the streets. Luckily there was no one around and the damage was less. It even amazed him that no one has come out from the side of the ruckus. But that didn't concern Danny.
At that moment, his ghost sense triggered, escaping as a mist through his lips. Before Danny could react, he felt a strange but familiar force pulling him. His body was covered in a blue light, pulling him into something. The only Danny could do was scream before he was sucked into the Fenton Thermos. Ember McClain held the thermos and closed the top.
"How do you like it now?" She smirked, glaring at the thermos in her hand.
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Within the ghost zone, the dimension maintained its normal course. Ghosts lived and habited their homes in peace. The bad ghosts, on the other hand, made trouble for themselves and in the process got caught by Walker and his goons. Among this dimension, the islands floated like in space, no gravity holding them back.
In one of these various island was the infamous Skulker's island. It looked like a normal island with trees but had a mountain curve into the shape of a skull. It served as the resting place and home to Skulker, the self proclaimed greatest hunter of the Ghost Zone.
Within the skull, it had the decorations that fit the status of a hunter. Pelts of his previous preys hung on the walls and on the ground as carpets. The place was stony like the mountain with walls that needed painting and low tech lying around.
Skulker stepped into his living room, his suit fully repaired. Behind him, Ember followed and gave a disgust look at the place, "This place has got to be the worst I've ever."
"I know. You've told me this already." Skulker grumbled.
"Yeah and I see you still haven't done anything about this place." She walked the room, giving the pelts on the wall a disgust look, "What do you even get for hanging these things?"
Skulker opened his mouth to answer, but halted when he thought about it, "It's uh…a hunter's thing."
"Right." She rolled her eyes, "Anyway what are we going to do about the dipstick?" To emphasis what she meant, she brought out in the Fenton thermos.
"I'm going to take his pelt and don it on my wall." He turned back from Ember, mumbling to himself where he would put it.
Ember shuddered at the thought. Though she hated Danny, she never really felt much about Skulker's thought of pelting. No matter, Danny will figure out a way to escape and when he does she'll have her revenge.
The next few minutes were calm before the door was blasted from its hinges. It got Skulker's and Ember attention as the direction. They would have expected any of Danny's family or friends to be there, but there were wrong. Standing at the door, a figure, at the same size of a teenager stood.
"Let Danny Phantom go." The shadowy figure commanded.
Just as he said that, both Skulker and Ember faced themselves and laughed. The shadowy figure drops the stance he took and stared at them with a confused look. The two ghosts continued to laugh until they couldn't anymore.
Skulker chuckled, getting rid of the final laugh before facing the figure, "I don't know who you think you are, but you're going to pay for destroying Skulker's door." He clutched both his fists, making sharp blades like claw to come through his knuckles, "And I'm going to pelt you as payment."
The shadowy figure shuddered, "Dad was right, it does sound gross."
Skulker launched himself at the figure, but he became intangible and sank into the floor, avoiding Skulker. The figure then reappeared back, but this time his gauntlets were glowing. From the glove gauntlets, blades reached out and once he swung at Skulker, it cuts both his arms off. The attack caught Skulker by surprise, bringing him to face the figure with a look of fear. The figure seems to smirk at this before sending a roundhouse kick at him, sending him to the wall.
However, the fight wasn't over. No sooner had Skulker been hit, the figure leapt side way, avoiding a pink fist.
"Stay still!" Ember snarled, ready to blast him.
The figure stood a good distance at her, getting into a fighting stance, "Well here I am. Give me your best shot."
Ember blinked, surprise he decided to stay still. Usually, the people she fights, mostly Phantom, would move. It didn't occur to her that it might be a trick as she felt angered by the figure's appearance. It reminded her of Phantom, since most of what the figure wore was alike. He was clearly a boy from the sound of his voice. He wore a black and white jumpsuit, except an upper black armor with an SN insignia on the chest, a white cloak and a black cape with the same insignia and on the hands were black and green stripe ghost gauntlets.
"Who do you think you are busting into my lair?" The defeated Skulker asked.
The smirk on the boy's face grew, "It's Shadow; Shadow Knight."
Immediately, Ember struck her guitar strings, firing a big purple fist. Instead of moving, Shadow Knight clutched his fists, the ghost gauntlets, activating them to glow. Before the fist could hit him, he threw his fist at the attack, sending it back at Ember. Her attack hit her, knocking her to the wall. She was about to get up, but Shadow Knight lifted her from her shoulders.
"What do you think of me now?" That instant, ghost electrical shock was sent through Shadow Knight's gauntlet and into Ember. She screamed from the pain, higher than any she felt. The pain continued for some time, weakening her with every passing second. Soon it stops, bringing Ember relief.
Shadow Knight held her and threw her against her fallen boyfriend. She hit with a hard thud and both were unconscious. Shadow Knight watched proudly at his work before picking up the Fenton thermos from the ground.
"I better get him back home." He glanced at the thermos and flew out of Skulker's lair.
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Shadow Knight flew through the ghost zone, heading to a particular place in mind. But it wasn't an easy ride in the ghost zone. A few ghost, mostly the stupid ones, intervened in his way, but Shadow Knight handled them with ease. The fights were usually brief that he sometimes wondered how he still held the thermos. He would have released Danny, but he wanted to ensure he was safe. It was his duty and life that he held.
It took a while but he calm to a halt, standing near the Fenton ghost portal. Not only that but it was opened, almost like welcoming any ghost to enter the real world. Shadow just shook his head, ridiculously thinking who would let it open. A certain fat man in a jumpsuit came to mind, but he pushed that from his mind and entered.
He came upon the Fenton basement and let himself touch the ground. The place was deserted of Maddie and Jack, probably for a reason ghost related. The deserted place made it easier for the ghost teen without getting in trouble. He held up the Fenton thermos in his hand and uncaps it. He then points it in front of him before pressing the eject button, causing a blue light to eject out.
Along with the blue light, Danny Phantom fell on his butt and groans, "Oh…what happened? Where am I?" He felt dizzy from overstaying in the thermos more than usual.
"You're back home, Danny." Shadow Knight answered, reaching his hand out to help him up.
Danny rubs the back of his head, feeling back better. He glanced at the teen before accepting his hand, "Thanks."
Shadow Knight pulled her up easily, helping him back on his feet, "No problem. Well I got to go so I'll see you around." He turned from Danny and began to make his way to the ghost portal. He was just about to step in when he felt a hand on his shoulder.
"What do you want?" He titled his head back at Danny.
"To thank you." Danny answered, removing his hand from his shoulder.
Shadow Knight faced him fully, "You've already said that."
"That was for helping me up." Danny pointed out, "Now I'm saying thanks for saving me. Skulker and Ember almost got me back then. If you hadn't come to rescue me I'll probably be hanging on Skulker's wall."
The two shared a brief shudder at the thought and laughed after.
"Just be careful to handle the Fenton thermos."
"Yeah, I will. So where do you live? Maybe I can visit you."
Shadow Knight fell silent, turning his head from him, "It's…complicated."
"How complicated?" Danny became afraid to ask. He didn't want to push it, but he was curious. He only hopes the ghost won't be angry.
"Complicated." Shadow Knight answered.
It was already clear he didn't want to tell and Danny was cool with it. He smiled warmly and laid his hand on his shoulder, attracting Shadow Knight's full attention, "Well wherever it is, I hope we'll meet again."
"Maybe." A grin crept on his face, "But not for a long time." He glance back at Danny, giving him a warm smile and reached his hand out in a hand shake, "It's been real, but I got to go home. Mom will kill me if she finds out I'm not home soon."
"Alright." Danny accepted his hand and both shook hands, "Goodbye, Shadow Knight."
"Goodbye, dad –I mean Danny." He took back his hand and step back, waving at Danny. He turned his back at Danny and flew inside, leaving Danny alone in the lab.
Danny stared at him as he left. He could explain why, but he felt fine and good when during the time Shadow Knight was there. When he woke up earlier and lay eyes on the ghost, something familiar rang in his head but he couldn't piece it together. Maybe it was the reason he didn't find the teen suspicious or something wrong with him.
"I wonder what he meant." Danny muttered. But before he could continue, a thought came to mind, "Oh no! I'm late for school, again!" All thoughts about Shadow Knight were left behind as Danny took off from the lab, heading straight to his school.
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While Danny made his way to school, Shadow Knight cruised his way through the Ghost Zone. He didn't encounter any ghost problem and that felt well with the place he looks for came to view. It was a big clock tower or castle, the sound of clock ticking already reaching his ears.
He flew to the door step and walked inside. When he entered, he came to the sight of clocks of all kind, from ancient to almost modern day, on the clocks ticking as time pass.
"I see you've completed your mission." said a voice from out of nowhere.
Shadow Knight didn't seem alarmed as he turned to the direction of the voice. The source revealed to be a blue skin ghost, holding a time staff and wearing a purple cloak on himself. Along with it, he had read eyes, one of them having a scar.
"Yeah, I did." Shadow answered, "I stop Ember and her dumb boyfriend from killing dad."
Clockwork hovered closer to him, keeping a close eye on him, "He didn't need your help. He would have saved himself."
"Then why did I have to save him!?" Shadow Knight yelled angrily, "Did you lose your marbles today, Clockwork?!"
The master of time didn't reply, in fact seeming untouched by his words, "I knew you would be mad, but I have my reason." He momentarily looked away from him and pointed at an object on a table, "That thing is the reason."
Shadow glanced at the object. He felt a spark of fear in his spine when he saw it, "Is that…a Fenton thermos?"
"Indeed." Clockwork replied once. He changed into the form of an old man, "You're father has told you about him and I'm sure you're aware of his return. Lately, some of his essence has gotten into the human world and I fear that he will return."
"Isn't there you can stop him?" Shadow stared at the master of time with a tiny look of hope.
However, to his disappointment, Clockwork shook his head, "No, it has gone off my hands. He is already aware of your existence because of your fight with the ghost hawk."
"So I messed up." Shadow turned his head from Clockwork in sadness.
Clockwork watched the boy, knowing well he blamed himself. It wasn't his fault he was here, but Clockwork. The master of time brought him here for a reason, a reason that might help.
"Don't feel bad for yourself, Jason." Clockwork spoke up, "You did well, in fact much better than I intended."
His words confused Shadow, but it got his attention. Clockwork flew straight at a screen, holdings his hands to his side, "The Observants look at time like their watching a parade, one thing after another, passing by in sequence right in front of them." The screen in front of him flashes, displaying multiple screens of different teen heroes, "I see the parade from above- all the twists and turns that might...or might not, take."
Shadow took a step forward and observed the screens, "Wait I know those guys."
"Exactly." Clockwork changed into his child form, "You've done well, Jason. By saving your father, Dan's essence didn't get to him before he could escape. Now you may go home." The time master moved his hand forward at a lower screen, turning it into a portal, "That should take you back to your own time."
Shadow nodded, smiling assuring to him. Two white rings appeared on his waist, one going up and the other going down. It changed him from his Phantom to human. Now in his human form, he had purple eyes and raven hair like Danny. He wore a purple shirt with a blue star at the middle and black jeans.
Jason walked into the screen, but gave Clockwork a final look. It would be a long time he laid eyes of him and he wanted to saver that moment. He gave Clockwork a final glance before walking inside and the portal closed right behind him.
With Jason gone, Clockwork glanced at the thermos again. It shook violently, letting out green mist from the lid. The device still held the ghost within, but Clockwork could tell that won't last for long.
"Everything…" He turned to the screen in front of him, just as it flashed to an important image, "is the way it suppose to be."
In closer observation, the image centralized only on a battle. Dark Dan stood at the right of the screen. At the left, Danny Phantom and some teenage heroes stood in a battle stance, ready to fight the evil Phantom as a team.
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So that ends here for now. I made a few references to other cartoon characters from Disney. The two boys that first saw Shadow are from the show Recess. I don't remember much about it so I'm sorry if I made a mistake on them.
Originally, this chapter had Vlad in it, but I didn't add that. This story used to be in the multicrossover section but it didn't get much popularity, so I deleted it and restarted it. For those of you looking forward to Ben and other heroes, don't worry they're coming soon. If I see that people are interested into this story I'll try to update faster,
The next chapter will be decided by you the readers. You can choose these heroes: Superboy, Violet from the Incredibles, Ben 10, Avatar Aang or Starfire to appear in the next chapter.
Please review nicely, criticism is welcome, but flames will be deleted.