I don't own any characters. Danny Phantom belongs to Butch Hartman and Nickelodeon. The Hitcher 2007 belongs to Rouge Pictures.
Let's get it out of the way, I know that the remake is forgettable to compared to the 80's version. However, for this crossover to work, I need to use the remake.
It was a rare low ghost attack day for Danny, Sam and Tucker. To mark the end of a perfect day for the tiro, they decided to hang out at the local teen hang out the Nasty Burger.
"Can you believe this?" Tucker asked excitedly.
"Yeah." Danny answered with a smile. "A quiet day at the Nasty Burger." He added.
As soon as he finished speaking, the Nasty Burger was already in their sight, causing the three best friends to hurry up. As soon as they hurried inside, they quickly found a table and looked for favorite foods on the menu. As the trio of friends searched for familiar meals, they heard the main door to the local teen hang out open.
Danny, Sam and Tucker, along with the rest of the Nasty Burger stopped what they were doing and looked up to see a pretty brown long girl with long hair and dark brown eyes standing in the doorway. At a first glance, she seemed like an average high school kid, however a second look revealed a pain hidden beneath her eyes.
As Danny looked at the new girl, he wondered what had happened to the newcomer that caused her such pain.
However, he seemed to be the only one who noticed this as every other guy in the restaurant made their way over to her in the hopes of asking her out.
Amazingly enough, she ignored them all and continued to search for a table. Then she stopped at Danny, Tucker and Sam's table and asked "Hi, do you guys mind if I join you?"
Before Danny could reply, Dash called out "Hey, you don't want to sit over there. That's the losers table!"
The new girl turned around and glared at them. Dash's face turned pale and became quiet as the new girl joined the tiro's table.
"Hi. I'm Tucker. Tucker Foley. That's T.F. as in 'Too Fine.'"
The girl gave him an annoyed look as she said "First of all, you're not my type. Second of all, I'm in college and Third of all, I'm not looking for a relationship right now."
"You're in college?" Sam questioned "Why are you doing out here all the way in Amity Park?"
"I'm taking a break and visiting relatives." The girl explained.
"Anyway, what's your name?" Danny wondered.
At that, the new girl gave him a small smile as she said "I'm Grace. Grace Andrews."
"I'm Danny." Danny replied. "You already met my best friend Tucker and this is my other friend Sam." He added as gestured towards the goth that sat next to him.
"We're all 14 year old high school freshman. How old are you anyway?" Sam asked with suspicion in her voice.
"I just turned 19, a fix weeks ago." Grace answered as she averted her eyes from Sam. "Also, I'm a sophomore." She added.
"What are you studying?" Danny asked, feeling mildly curious.
"I used to major in fashion, but I changed it to criminology." Grace answered.
This took the tiro by surprise. What could've happened to this college student to cause such a huge change? They all thought at once.
"Were you involved in a crime?" Sam wondered.
At this, Grace looked away as she said "I don't feel like talking about it."
"Can you believe it?! A college girl came over to our table and sat down and talked to us!" Tucker exclaimed with joy as he and his best friends headed home later that evening.
"Yeah, if you like older women." Sam muttered as the group continued to walk.
"Are you okay, Sam?" Danny asked.
"I'm fine." Sam quickly answered, but Danny could tell that she was lying.
Then he suddenly got it. "Don't tell me, you're jealous of Grace." The ghost hybrid asked.
Sam's silence said it all.
"Sam, she may be as pretty as Paulina, but I don't think she's as shallow as you think Paulina is." Danny explained.
"How do you know? None of us know her well at all!" Sam fired back.
"One, she wants to work in criminology and two, did you not see the pain in her eyes?" Danny questioned. "It was the pain of losing someone very close to you, I haven't forgotten how close I came to experiencing that pain that day."
Sam and Tucker paused as they recalled the day that went to the future and discovered that not only did Danny grow up to be the most evil ghost on the planet, but that all of his loved ones died in an explosion at the Nasty Burger. Even though, that future had been averted, the trio was still shaken at that it could've happened. Just then, Danny felt his ghost sense go off. A few seconds later, a new ghost appeared over the various building of Amity Park. However, this ghost looked almost ordinary and yet there was something about him that was just as scary as Skulker, Freakshow, Vlad Plasmius or even his future self. Still duty called and Danny ran behind an alleyway as he cried out "I'm going ghost!"
Within a few seconds, a ring of light appeared arose be his waist and split in two. Then gone was Danny Fenton, average 14 year and in his place stood, Danny Phantom hero of Amity Park!
At once he flew towards the mysterious ghost keeping a close eye on him, at the sight of him the mysterious ghost smiled as he said "You're the halfa I heard so much about."
Feeling nervous, but doing his best not to show it, Danny replied with "What do you want?"
The mysterious ghost simply gave Danny a wicked smile as he said "While, you'd be interesting to have fun with later, you're not the one I'm looking for. I'm looking for the one who killed me."
As the mysterious ghost finished speaking, a bunch of questions started to fly through Danny's head all at once. Who killed this ghost and why? Did he want revenge? How long ago was he killed? Just who is this ghost anyway?
Almost as if he could read Danny's mind, the ghost said "People call me John Ryder kid and I'm been dead for the past six months. As long as you stay out of my way, I won't bother you."
Right away Danny released what this John Ryder was asking of him was impossible, he could never allow himself to stand by and watch an innocent bystander get hurt, hero of Amity Park or not, his conscience wouldn't allow it.
However, before he could say or do anything to John Ryder had spotted someone and began to fly his way towards the object of his vengeance.
Danny quickly flew after him with the intent of figuring out who Ryder's target was and stopping Ryder. As the young halfa flew closer, he was surprised to see Grace from earlier walking towards her car, but what surprised Danny even further is when Ryder said "Hey there bitch, remember me?"
At the sight of Ryder's ghost self, Grace Andrews froze in her tracks. For a moment she just stood there, frozen in fear before she worked up the courage to say "How…? Why…? I killed you…like you wanted…?"
"Okay, somebody tell me what's going on here? Like why did you kill this guy?" Danny demanded as he looked at Grace.
At this Ryder smirked as he said "When I was alive, I did things that would make your hair fall off, Gracie and her boy-toy would've joined my list of victims sooner, but good old Jimmy managed to throw me out of their car. It was then, I suddenly felt excited for the first time in a long time. It was then I knew I either had to kill them, had them kill me or make them just like me."
As Ryder finished speaking, Danny felt sick and fought back the urge to vomit. Then Grace spoke up with "I gave you what you wanted, why are you back and why are you coming after me again?"
Ryder once again evilly smirked before he briefly frowned and said "The goal was to make you just like me, after I died I was disappointed that you went back to your normal life, as if it never happened!"
At his sudden outburst, both Danny and Grace flinched back. Then Ryder composed himself as he added "Well guess what sweetheart it did and now that I'm back I'm going to finish the job!"
As he finished speaking, the murderous ghost lunged himself towards the now frightened college girl. However, Danny quickly flew in front of her and fired an ecto blast at the ghost. As Ryder dogged and growled, Danny said "Leave her alone!"
Ryder simply narrowed his eyes at the young adults as he said "I warned you to stay out of my way."
With that, he created a knife made out of ecto energy and threw it at the young adults. For a moment, Danny was stunned. However, he quickly pulled himself together and scooped up Grace in his arms and started to fly as far away from Ryder as he could.
Grace couldn't help but scream in spite of herself. Then Danny said "Look, I know this very scary, but please don't scream."
"He's right behind us!" Grace cried out as she pointed behind Danny.
Danny turned his head and discovered that to his horror that not only was Ryder right behind them but was getting ready to throw more ecto knives at them.
How is he able to do that? Danny thought to himself, before he added It doesn't matter, I can't let him hurt us.
With that, the young ghost hybrid pulled himself out of his thoughts and fired several more ecto blasts in the hopes that at least one would hit him.
Ryder dogged them all, except for the last one and amazingly enough, it sent him flying back towards the earth and knocked him out cold.
Danny looked at Grace and asked "Would you mind taking a quick detour?"
"Can't we just get as far away from him please?" Grace pleaded.
Danny sighed as he said "Look, I know this all very new and very scary, but I need to go down there so I can put away and send him back to the ghost zone."
Grace was quiet for a moment then she replied with "Whatever, just make it quick."
"I promise it will be over before you know it." Danny assured her.
With that, Danny, still keeping a tight hold on Grace flew down towards the seemly unconscious John Ryder. However as they got closer, Ryder suddenly woke up and threw another ecto knife at the two young adults. As Grace screamed in fear, Danny leaped out of the way, still pressing the older brunette close to him with one hand as he reached for the Fenton Thermos with his other hand.
Seeing what the halfa was doing, Ryder called out "You'd think I'd let you beat me so easily dumbass!"
As the murderous ghost finished speaking, he started to form another ecto knife in his hand, but Danny quickly adjusted both Grace and the Thermos with his right hand as he quickly fired another blast with his left hand.
Soon a battle began between the two ghosts, equally matched in both determination and strength. Seeing that neither one would win anytime soon, Ryder could only see a single choice appearing before him. Ryder let out a growl of frustration as he said "You may have won this round kids, but this isn't over. Not even by a long shot!"
As he finished, Ryder turned invisible and disappeared into the pavement.
For a moment both Danny and Grace simply stared at the ground in shock not knowing what to do. Then Grace broke the silence with "What are we waiting for? Let's get out of here."
With that, Danny once again adjusted Grace in his arms, jumped into the air and flew into the sky.
As Danny flew through the air with Grace in his arms, Grace looked at him and said "You made a dangerous enemy today. Now he won't stop until either we're just like him or dead."
Danny shrugged as he replied with "I dealt with creeps like him before, an enemy of mine has been trying to make me join him too."
"What? Why?" Grace asked.
Danny paused as he carefully thought over his answer, even though he just learned about Grace's rivalry with Ryder, he wasn't ready completely ready to share the whole story of Vlad and how they came to be arch-enemies, instead he would tell the young college student a little bit of it.
"Well, he's only one like me and he thinks I should be his son. He wants me to leave my family and join him." Danny explained.
Grace looked at the young halfa with sympathy as she said "That's terrible. Doesn't the afterlife have laws that try to protect you from guys like him?"
At this, Danny couldn't help but laugh as he said "It's actually the ghost zone and no they don't since the place is pretty lawless." Then he added "Aside from that control freak, Walker. He has his own prison and will lock ghosts like me up for any reason he can think of." Danny finished with a frown on his face.
Grace looked stunned then she said "I don't know how you handle it."
"It comes with the territory." Danny replied.
At that, both Danny and Grace started to laugh. For a moment, all the tension and fear that the two young adults felt earlier seemed to be washing away.
Then, Danny remembered that Grace mentioned that she killed Ryder and he wanted to know why.
Doing his best to not to upset Grace, Danny carefully asked "Ummm...I don't mean to bother you or anything, but why I did you kill him?"
Grace paused for a moment before she replied with "He killed my boyfriend."
Danny became quiet for a moment then he said "I'm so sorry."
"Don't be sorry, do something. Make sure Ryder can't hurt me or anyone else again." Grace pleaded.
Danny looked her right in the eye as he replied with "I won't let him touch you."
Grace smiled in thanks before she pointed down at the ground before and said "That's my apartment."
Danny took a look at the small red-brown building below and flew down towards the building. As he landed on ground and gently placed Grace down, Danny added "Would you like me to walk you inside? Also are you sure it's a good idea for you just head back to your apartment after everything that's just happened?"
Grace smiled in thanks as she said "Thanks, but no thanks, I handed him once before and I can handle him again."
"Besides, I need a quick breather in my own home. I just want to pretend that everything's still normal for a little longer." She added.
Then you've come to the wrong town. Danny thought to himself in an almost teasing tone. However he knew better than to say this aloud, instead what he said next was "He's much tougher now. Also, he and I won't be the last ghosts you see in this town. Ghosts are continuously drawn to this town."
"Why?" Grace asked fearfully.
Danny took a deep breath as he replied "It's because of a faulty ghost portal in Fenton Works."
"Fenton works? What's that?" Grace wondered.
"It's a lab that's run by the only two ghost hunters in this town." Danny explained.
"Wait, so they work for the guys in white? Why haven't they caught you or any other ghost?" Grace asked in a confused tone.
"No, they don't work for the Guys in White." Danny said in a relieved tone. Then he became quiet for a moment before he added "Let's just say, they have a string of bad luck when it comes to catching ghosts. So I help them out a bit. Anyway, the point is that they can help you protect your home against Ryder."
"I know, I'll contact Fenton works for help." Grace promised.
"You should go to them right away." Danny advised.
As she stepped inside the building, the beautiful brunette turned towards Danny and said "Thanks for saving my life."
Danny blushed in spite of himself as he replied with "Oh, it was nothing."
"You're blushing. I didn't know ghosts could blush." an amused Grace pointed out.
That of course made Danny's blush even redder.
Grace couldn't help but giggle as she teased "Do all ghosts blush or just you?"
"Uh...Uh...I gotta go!" Danny cried as he quickly jumped into the air and flew away.
I don't believe it. I got to carry an older pretty girl. Danny thought to himself as he fought back the urge to start dancing in joy. Wait a minute, pull yourself together and focus Danny, she needs your help. You can celebrate later after the dangerous creep can never bother her or anyone else again.
"I gotta find Sam and Tucker." Danny muttered to himself. "They are not going to believe this." He added.
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