Chapter 01 Danielle Arrives

Danielle(Those close to her called her Dani) flew across the open night sky, she loved to fly, it was always the best way to clear her mind. Dani was 16 years old(physically speaking that is, she has only been alive 4 years), She had long Raven hair that went down around her shoulders and was held together in the back in a ponytail, her bangs were long and often covered one of her Baby-blue eyes.

Dani's current appearance however looked almost nothing like the previous description, because she was able to transform into a ghost like form. In this form Dani's Raven hair turns white as fallen snow, and her eyes electric green, whatever Dani was wearing at the time would turn into a black and white jumpsuit, The right side of her shirt is inverted, her right arm is white and her right glove is black while her left arm is black and her glove is white. She has streaks of white on the sides of her pants, and wears white shoes. She has an emblem on her chest that is a P inside of a D.

Dani's thoughts were drifting back to when she was "Born" as she preferred to call it, Because Dani wasn't "Born" like most people. Danielle was a clone of a boy named Danny Fenton, a boy whose half ghost with a great deal of their powers.

She was created by another half ghost named Vlad Masters, who was obsessed with disposing of Danny's father Jack Fenton because Jack had married the love of his life Maddie while he suffered from ghost powers that he blamed Jack for giving him.

Vlad had made multitudes of clones in the hopes of making the perfect half ghost son using Danny's DNA. Dani was created in those experiments, at first she saw Vlad as her father and did everything he told her. She tricked Danny into thinking she was his cousin so she could capture him for Vlad so that he could get a sample of Danny's DNA in mid-morph between his human and ghost form, believing he was going to use it to stabilize her unstable body.

However before Vlad could do anything of the sort Danny managed to show her how evil Vlad was, and that to him she was nothing more than a mistake that he wasn't going to fix.

Something wet hit her shoulder, she thought it was going to rain but then saw that there were no clouds around, it was then she realized she was crying. "Great" Dani moaned, "What on earth made me start thinking of him".

Dani tried to force her thoughts away from her last encounter with her creator, but it was all in vain as the memories came flooding back to her. Vlad sent a ghost hunter named Valerie to catch Dani so he could melt her down and study her remains. However she was once more saved by the boy she was cloned from when he convinced Valerie to help save her from Vlad's alter ego, Vlad Plasmius, who had almost succeeded in destroying her were it not for a last minute attempt by Danny to re-stabilize her. What Danny did worked and the three of them gave Plasmius a sound beating, she thanked both her cousin and new friend before flying off on her own.

The last time she saw her cousin was when he had gathered every ghost from their world(Known as the ghost zone) to turn the entire planet intangible so an asteroid would float through it harmlessly. Before that happened Vlad had revealed himself to the whole world to be half ghost in order to try and seize power, only to have it backfire marking him public ghost enemy #1. Danny didn't seem to notice she was there(Don't see how though, she was 6 feet away from him at the time) and he did the same thing that Vlad had done(with VASTLY different results) and showed the world that Danny Fenton and Danny Phantom were one and the same.

Dani saw how happy her cousin was, his family and best friends embracing the teenage hybrid with such affection. She couldn't help but wonder why Vlad couldn't have shown her at least some of that kindness. Unable to stand any more of the scene and feeling she had already asked so much of Danny, Dani flew off to her unknown destination, Of course not before she pilfered a few things from "Daddy's" mansion.

Before leaving Amity Park Dani dropped by Vlad's Mansion and phased into his vault, some of the things she found in there were unexpected to say the least, there was $500,000 in cash, some ghostly artifacts, as well as some discarded inventions Vlad had made over the years. Among them only 3 stood out, the 1st being a device called the "Plasmius Maximus" a device that looked like a tuning fork, all she could see of it was its name and it gave her a creepy feeling so she left it be. The 2nd was this strange crown that looked like it was on fire, it looked dangerous so she left it sit. Lastly she saw a wrist strap device that was labeled "Portable Plasmius Portal", 'that looks like it could be handy' she thought to herself 'well "Daddy" certainly wont be needing any of this'. She now wore the portable portal and the $500,000 was in a Green Bay Packers duffle bag she found along with a belt that was called a Specter Deflector(She didn't need it but it may come in handy), and after one last look at the town set off to parts unknown, even to her...

That was 2 years ago.

Danielle finally got the tears to stop as she started to notice a storm up ahead, "Man" she whined as she was about to change course.

Before she could her Ghost sense went off, Dani looked around, startled as this hadn't happened for at least a month, for what could have set it off when she was hit by a beam of purple energy and went spiraling aways before she stabilized herself. Danielle shook her head as another blast hit her in her square in the chest sending her flying into the storm clouds.

She opened her eyes back up to find where her assailant was, but all she could see was the pitch black mounds of water particles and flashing bolts of lightning. Dani felt something press against her throat, but she couldn't see it, panicked, Dani started flying in a circle in an attempt to through her attacker off her. She did this to no avail, when she noticed she could hear breathing over her left shoulder, thinking quickly she fired a plasma ray over her shoulder and heard her invisible assailant yell from the pain, while Dani took in a much needed breath.

Dani turned to face this(presumably) new ghost but they hadn't turned visible despite Dani shooting them in the face with a full power plasma ray, she felt a hand clamp hard onto her arm and a split second later another hit her stomach. Dani seized the opportunity and grabbed at her arm until she felt her visually challenged attackers wrist and kicked them with an ecto charged boot, then wrenched her hand free of the enigmatic ghosts grip. As she raised her ecto charged hand to strike at the ghost, a bolt of lightning struck the ghost girls raised arm electrocuting both of the wandering souls.

Both of the hapless specters let out a painful shriek as the full 1 billion volts passed through their bodies, Danielle had only ever felt this pain once before, when her 'Father' had tried to melt her down, every cell in her body felt like it was on fire. Dani's mystery assailant had dropped their invisibility, but she only caught a glimpse of them before they were both enveloped by a deep green aura for a few brief moments, then were blasted apart.

...

Danielle stirred as she regained consciousness, she sat up feeling sore all over and saw why, she had cratered into the ground. Her backpack and laptop had somehow survived the fall and she found the duffle was still on her back with all her money and cloths still in it. Danielle looked around to try and find the ghost that had been reponsible for her plight, assuming a fighting stance and waited for them to make a move, but nothing happened for several minutes.

After a few more minutes of nothing Dani relaxed slightly assuming(or at least hoping) that they must have been blasted away further than her, she then noticed how tired she was and that the storm she was just in was gone, "Crap" she yawned as she stretched. She pulled out her laptop from her backpack and started typing, "Where might a decent hotel be around here" She asked herself as she searched for one.

The top result came up "The Waterfall" Dani read aloud "It's in Dakota City huh, at least its close", she put away her laptop and took off in the air again. After a while of flying Dani finally made it to the city, she found a dark alley and touched down while two rings of light changed her back into her human form.

Pausing to stretch she made her way to the hotel only to remember "Wait, I have no idea where this place is" she said to herself "come to think of it I've never been here before so that's no surprise". Dani was kicking herself for not realizing this sooner when she spotted something on a nearby TV in a television store window, the news was on and Dani could see a teenage boy with dreadlocks flying on a metal disk of some kind fighting what looked like an oversized Armadillo.

"Another teenage superhero?", Dani said slightly bewildered "Who is that guy?", "You don't know who that is, that's Static" said a voice from behind her. Dani turned to see who had said that, when she did she saw a very large(around the waist anyway) African American man who smiled pleasantly from his car and said "You must be new in town".

Dani replied with "Uhh... yeah, I just got here a few minutes ago, who did you say that guy was?", the man said to her "That's Dakotas own superhero Static, a while back near the docks there was a big gas explosion everyone around here calls "The Big Bang" that gave everyone exposed to it Medahuman powers" the man dropped his head slightly "the problem was that most of the people that were exposed were all delinquent kids with nasty attitudes and they were stirring up all kinds of trouble" He picked his head up as he continued "But then Static showed up and it made everyone breath a sigh of relief, he's done his best to keep people safe ever since".

The man seemed to beam at these words, "Huh, cool" Dani said reminded a little of her cousin, "Say I'm trying to find The Waterfall Hotel, could you tell me where it is?", The man leaned out the window a little and said "Sure thing, you just go down this road, hang a right, then you'll see the community center, walk past the sign then keep going another street corner then go right, keep walking a ways and you can't miss it".

"Thank you sir" Dani said as she walked away, 'What a nice guy' she thought to herself as she waved goodbye, "What a polite young lady" The man said as Dani walked away. "Daddy, I got the good tea" said the mans daughter as she walked up to the car, "Alright Sharon, lets see if we can't beat Virgil home" The man said starting the car, Sharon let out a small laugh as she said "Daddy if Virgil beats us home, I'll shave my head".

Dani passed the community center sign and stopped to take a better look at it, the building itself was pretty nice sized and it even had a fountain in front of it. "This place looks like it might be worth checking out some time" Dani said to herself, "maybe I'll stick around for a few days". She found the hotel just where the man said it would be, she ducked into an alley, took some money from the duffle bag, put it in her backpack then turned it intangible, and stuck it in the ground to hide it.

Dani checked into the hotel without any problems(other than havening to overshadow the guy at the front desk with one of her replicas so he didn't ask to many questions when no one was looking), she got to her room and crashed on the bed. Dani's thoughts drifted as she felt herself nod off, from Vlad, to the nice man who helped her find this place, the ghost that attacked her, and finally her cousin Danny and wondered what he was doing right now as she fell fast asleep.

A few minutes ago ...

"Gear to Static, come in, hows everything on your end?" said a voice from a walkie talkie, Static answered "I read ya Gear, everythings cool on my end, geuss only Carmendillo was stupid enouph to try anything tonight". "Looks like it, I'm heading home, She-Bang out" Said She-bangs voice from the walkie talkie, "See ya tomarrow, Gear out" said Gears voice from the same source.

Static was on patrol making his last rounds before deciding to head home. Statics real name was Virgil Hawkins, and his costume was a black and blue coat with gold/yellow inner lining with some highlights, black pants with a white mask, and dark blue shades that hung just below his dreadlocks.

Static was just about to head home when a bright light from an alley caught his eye, "Looks like I'm getting home late tonight too" Static groaned. He flew into the alley only to find it empty, "Huh, that's weird" He said, he went out the other side but all he could see was some girl with a Packers bag(Who the hecks a Packers fan around here) talking to, "Pops" he whispered to himself.

The girl waved to his dad(guess he did something nice for her, knowing him), and he saw his sister get to the car, "Daddy, I got the good tea" Sharon said, "Alright Sharon, lets see if we can't beat Virgil home" Mr. Hawkins said starting the car, Sharon let out a small laugh as she said "Daddy if Virgil beats us home, I'll shave my head". Static only smirked and said "He he, then get the buzz cutter ready sis" and he sped off.

Static flew through his bedroom window and changed his cloths, on the way down stairs he fixed his hair in the mirror saying "Lookin good Virgil". Virgil flopped down on the couch and turned on the TV, the news was still on.

"And with Carmendillo once more behind bars, Static, Gear, and She-Bang have the citizens of Dakota feeling safer every day, This is Shelly Sandoval signing off" came from the screen. Virgil smiled at this, he'd come a long way from that kid who was in over his head with F-Stop and forced into that Gang war down by the docks that ultimately gave him these powers.

'Man, the people of Dakota really do love me' he thought 'even mom said she was proud of me', he thought back to when he met Nina Crocker, a Bang Baby with the power to control time, she took him, Gear, and another Bang Baby Ebon back in time to the night his mom die from a stray bullet. She saw him standing in front of her five years older and a super hero to boot, he told her everything that happened to him, The Big Bang, the hero gig, the time travel, all she could do was hug her son and tell him how proud of him she was.

Even if she was gone Virgil knew just what she thought about the choices he's made. Virgil heard the front door open and turned to see Sharon's face as she saw him sitting there, "geeze sis, you look stressed, that can make you go bald, you really should try meditation or yoga" Virgil said with a cocky grin. This didn't go un-noticed by his father, who waited for Sharon to stomp off at her brothers remark, "You heard that did you" Mr. Hawkins said to his son.

Robert Hawkins knew his son's secret after a woman that called herself Omnara kidnaped him to get to Static, after that it was simple 2+2=4 math to know his son was a super hero(they however neglected to tell Sharon). "A little, kinda disappointed she's not gonna follow through with it though" Virgil said honestly, he yawned as he said "Welp, better hit the sack, don't wanna waste a perfectly good Saturday by sleepin to long".

"Who are you and what have you done with my son" Mr. Hawkins said, "He's right here, it's just Richi, Shenice, and me have some stuff to do tomorrow" he lowered his voice "Some Static, She-Bang, and Gear stuff, Richie says he has something to show us" Virgil told his father, "Say no more, go get some rest" Mr. Hawkins replied. Virgil went upstairs got in his PJs got under his blankets and fell asleep with little difficulty.

Meanwhile in the other crater...

The rubble began to stir as the ghost began to move from the imprint made in the ground and got up, only to fall to her knees. A few moments later three more ghosts flew down before their wounded comrad, one was a hovering bed sheet with eyes and arm slits, another was VERY big and muscular with grey skin and stitches all along his body that made him resemble Frankenstine's monster, the last one was VERY tiny to the point where he looked like a fairy and was emmiting deep green glow.

The big guy approached the injured specter "You ok, sister?" he said as he knelt down beside the figure, she however only blasted him in the face with a beam of purple energy sending him flying past the other two "I DON'T NEED YOUR HELP MEAT!" She screeched, "THAT LITTLE BRAT GOT LUCKY THIS TIME".

The ghost sheet looked at her worriedly and said "Sister, we checked the other crater and the surrounding area but the girl was no where to be seen", The girl looked furious and blasted the ghost sheet with blue energy freezing him instantly.

"IDIOTS!" She bellowed, "DID YOU ALREADY FORGET HOW LONG IT TOOK TO FIND HER THE FIRST TIME?!", The tiny ghost flew up to the enraged phantoms ear and started talking, "WHAT DO YOU WANT PIPSQUEAK?!... What?... Hmm... Yeah... That's actually a very good idea... WHY DIDN'T YOU THINK OF THAT THE FIRST TIME?!" she said swatting away the ghost fairy.

Meat approached her cautiously as he asked "Sister, what Pipsqueak's idea?", she turned to face Meat who recoiled at the motion(which made her smile slightly) and said "Well Meat, Pipsqueak suggested that if we are on the hunt for someone..." her smile deepened, "... we'll need a hunter, and I happen to know just where to find one, chip Linus out of that ice and lets get going".