Chapter 1:
It was a typical Saturday in Amity Park, kids were out playing in the summer air, adults were conversing about current events, and teenagers were hanging out at the local restaurant, the Nasty Burger. Most were gossiping, or talking about what they were going to do that summer. But there were three teens sitting at a corner booth, talking about the recent ghost attacks. These three teens were named Samantha (Sam) Manson, Tucker Foley, and Daniel (Danny) Fenton. Tucker was sitting to the left of Danny, and Sam was sitting across from them.
"What are we going to do? More and more ghosts are coming out of the Ghost Zone, and half of them are ones we've never fought before!" Danny fretted.
"Don't worry dude," Tucker consoled his friend, "we've been able to beat them all so far, and now we don't have to worry about school getting in the way!"
"Tucker's right Danny," this coming from Sam, "you won't have to worry about your grades, or coming up with excuses to tell your parents! We have the whole summer!"
"Yeah, you're right! We have plenty of-" The rest of Danny's sentence was cut off by a blue mist coming from his mouth. "Great." He mumbled.
"Don't worry, its probably just the Box Ghost," Sam whispered.
"Yeah," agreed Tucker. "If you're not back in five minutes, we'll know its not, and come help you."
Danny just nodded, and slipped under the table. He said a silent "going ghost" not wanting to attract attention. With a bright ring of white light, that no one seemed to notice, Danny's normally bright blues eyes turned a radioactive green, and his raven black hair turned snow white. His simple t-shirt and blue jeans transformed into a black jumpsuit with white gloves, boots, and DP insignia on his chest. Danny Fenton, regular 15 year old boy, was now the famed ghost hero of Amity Park, Danny Phantom.
Danny used his ghostly intangibility and invisibility to fly up to the roof. Once there, he turned tangible and touched down of the top of the Nasty Burger. He scanned the area, looking for any sign of the ghost that disrupted his lunch. The young halfa saw nothing, though he knew the ghost was around here somewhere. He turned visible and dropped his battle stance. Dropping his ready stance proved to be a mistake for seconds later something hit him in the back of the head. Danny turned around to see what it was.
A phone. What?
"I am Technus! Master of all things technological and beeping! I have come to use your devices to enslave you all!"
Danny rolled his eyes, he really didn't want to deal with this right now.
" Hey, tech-freak!" he yelled! "You about done shouting your plans to the world? I don't have all day to listen to your long-winded speechs!"
Technus turned to face the white-haired ghost teen on the opposite roof. He flew over to the ghost boy, raising his hands to the heavens. "Ha-ha!" Technus shouted. "I am just trying to distract you ghost child! For behold, my Tchno-bot 2.0!"
TV's rose up out of houses, cell phones flew out of people's hands and pockets, and pretty much anything that could be plugged into a power outlet rose into the sky, and formed into a giant being.
"Techno-bot? Really?" Danny asked. "You really need to come up with better names. And what happened to 1.0?" asked Danny.
"It kept glitching out on me, it took me months to perfect this design!" Technus exclaimed, waving his hand around dramatically.
Danny nodded, that's all he needed to know. He flew up and started pounding the monstrosity with everything he had, ectoblasts, ice rays, even a combination of both. But no matter what he tried, it just kept growing with more and more technological equipment.
"Great," he mumbled, " even Technus is getting stronger, whose next? Skulker?" He hoped not. Remembering Skulk-tech, and shivered.
While Danny was busy mumbling to himself, Technus took the opportunity to pin him to the ground with various power chords.
'Come on!' Danny thought, 'where is Tucker and Sam! They said they'd be here in five minutes! It's been more than five!'
Little did Danny know that Tucker was weeping over his newest PDA, Debbie who got whisked away by Technus. And Sam was trying to snap him out of his tantrum, without much success.
Back on the roof Technus was gloating. "What are you going to do Phantom? I Technus master of-" he was cut short by the ectoblast that hit him right in the motherboard.
All Danny needed was that moment, he broke free of the wires and pulled out the hidden thermos. He pressed the button and "the Master of Long-winded Speeches" was gone in a whirl of blue light. All of the technology, being controlled by the ghost fell 15 feet to the road below. He smiled sheepishly at the dirty looks some people gave him, for ruining their new flat screen, but some things couldn't be helped.
Suddenly remembering the ghost that helped him, he turned, only to find nobody there. 'They must have fled' he thought.
He was just about to turn intangible, and go back down into the Nasty Burger, when he felt someone tap his shoulder, followed by a ghostly laugh. Danny smiled, turned his hand invisible, and quickly reached behind him, and grabbed her arm before she could react.
"Nice try Dani!" He laughed, "but your terrible at hiding."
"Did you see his face! It was priceless!" She laughed.
"Thanks, by the way, I don't know what I would have done if you wouldn't have shown up." He thanked.
" No problem, after all, what are cousins for?" She asked, and Danny just laughed in response.
"Now, I have to go beat up my friends for not being there in a fight," he joked. "Wanna come help?"
"With pleasure." Dani replied.
With that, the two half-ghosts melted through the ceiling to go talk to weeping geek and the irritated goth girl.
In the depths of the Ghost Zone, Clockwork was looking into the future. And frankly, he didn't like what he saw, but some things couldn't be helped. When the vision was over, the time ghost sighed.
"It has to be done." He said to himself.
he floated over to a table in the far corner of the viewing chamber. He grabbed the object that he promised to watch over, in his left hand, keeping the time staff in his right. Clockwork traveled to the far end of the vast chamber, took a left, then went down a long hallway. Reaching the end, he took another left. He continued on until he reached a staircase, leading downward. Once down the steps he floated along until he saw another doorway, this time on the right. He tapped the door with the staff and it swung open quietly. They ancient ghost stepped inside, and changed into his elder form.
The room was bare except for a lone table in the center. The dark walls held an eerie glow, almost like the Ghost Zone itself, yet this glow was darker, more sinister. He floated farther into the room and set the object on the table. He touched his staff to the top and whispered, 'when the time is right, you know what to do.'
With that, he left the room, and secured the door behind him. He stood there for a moment, changing back into his child form.
"He'll thank me for this," he whispered.
The Keeper of Time made his journey back through the labyrinth of halls until he was back in the viewing chamber. He sat down on a chair near a bookshelf, both recently added. He stared ahead into the future.
"Everything is how it should be." He said, but anyone listening could hear the doubt in his voice, almost like he was trying to convince himself.