Hi everyone, this is one of my first fanfics so I hope you enjoy! =)
-cartoonmaniac24
"Hey son, can you pass me some of that Fenton Cola in the Fenton Fridge?" Jack asked as he continued to work on a new invention that probably had something to do with ghosts. Danny walked over to the fridge and pulled out an overfilled can of liquid goo labeled Fenton Cola that reeked like a poop-filled barnyard. Danny held the disgusting drink a far distance from his nose to keep the revolting smell away.
"What's in this thing?" Danny said sickened. "Your mother and I invented it so when you drink it, it'll keep the ghosts away." Jack grabbed the soda from Danny and gulped it down. Danny looked like he was going to puke.
"Ahhhh, nothing like good ghost repellent! Want some Danny?" Jack gestured the drink to his son but Danny back away from it immediately, like it was going to blow up. Ok, now, it's working. Danny thought. "Um, no thanks dad. I'm not that thirsty." Danny said.
"Suit yourself! That means more for me!" Jack continued to gulp down the revolting goo when Danny noticed the contraption his dad was working on. It looked like a GPS except it was the size of an Ipad. "Dad? What's this?" Danny asked his father while keeping a safe distance away from Jack.
"Why son, it's for our new invention. Your mother and I are building the new Fenton Ghost Finder. It's got much more sensors so that can detect a ghost within 100 metres and it's got a coffee maker installed! Isn't that great?" Jack exclaimed excitedly. He pressed a yellow button labeled "coffee dispenser" and a huge glob of weird looking liquid came out all at once, all over Maddie's recently mopped floor. "Ok, well, I'm still working on the coffee maker part but once I'm done with this baby, it'll be in tip-top shape, ready for anything!" Jack said confidently.
"So, it won't hurt the ghost, right?" Danny asked nervously. Jack suddenly stopped working on the device and focused his attention on Danny. He looked like he just heard a hilarious joke and started rolling on the floor laughing his head off (ROFL). This attitude went on for five minutes with Danny staring at him with a confused look. Finally, the man stood up, still giggling and with tears in his eyes.
"Oh Danny, you crack me up sometimes. You know we always invent stuff that hurt ghosts! It has a built in radiation wave so once I press this button, it will give off the wave and weaken the ghost!" Jack gestured to a big, red button located on the back of the device.
"Jack? What happened to all the fudge I bought 30 minutes ago?" Maddie called from the kitchen. "Um... I don't know what your talking about honey?" Jack lied then continued to work on the Fenton contraption.
Danny nervously gulped as he shuffled slowly towards the stairway. "Yeah... um... I got a lot of homework to do so... bye!" Danny said quickly then he rushed up the stairs before Jack could say anything.
Danny slouched in a depressed way as he headed to his room. Why do I have to be the half-ghost freak with the ghost hunting parents? Why couldn't they just be doctors or something? Danny thought. He asked these questions to himself when he felt the whole world was against him. Danny was ascending the stairs with these thoughts in mind when he was intercepted by his older, genius, bossy and more mature sister, Jazz.
"Um... hi Danny! This is going to sound weird but I was just wondering... can you be my science project for school?"
"What?" Danny asked both surprised and confused at the same time.
"Just this once, please Danny?" Pleaded Jazz on her knees. "I'm writing a report on ghosts and their natural abilities for the science fair that's coming up and if you can just go ghost for once to help me, I'll never ask for anything again."
"Let me think... no, and besides, you never ask me for anything." Danny stated then tried to get past his sister.
"Why not?" Jazz blocked him again.
"Because I use my ghost powers for good, not for stupid science fair projects."
"Science fairs are not stupid. They are actually considered an educational excitement to many children nowadays. Did you know-"
"Don't know, don't care. I'm not going to be your lab rat, just so you can get your perfect "A+". My powers are for good and for good only." Danny crossed his arms, confirming his statement.
"What about the time you got back at Dash with your powers? Or the time you snuck into the girl's locker room with your powers? Or the time you-"
"Ok, ok, ok! I get it. I did stuff that wasn't exactly for good, but, I had my reasons."
"What reasons?" Jazz had Danny where she wanted him, stuck. She knew by the worried expression plastered on his face that she won.
"... Um... well..." Danny thought for a moment then discovered he'd been tricked by his know-it-all sister. She smiled deviously, knowing what he was going to say next. Finally, after a brief time of thinking, Danny gave up. "Ok, fine! I'll do the stupid project and you can get your stupid 'A'! Happy?"
"Yes, yes I am. Ok, here's a schedule. We meet everyday after school, ok? I'm going to do more research in the library and then we can start!" Jazz handed him a neat and tidy color-coded schedule.
"But-" Before Danny could finish his sentence, Jazz rushed out the front door, left with the sound of the door slamming shut. Danny sighed as he crumpled the neatly typed in paper and threw it away. Why did I agree to this?
Things couldn't get any worse but if you're Danny, there's always a way it could get worse. A wisp of blue breath brewed out of Danny's mouth leaving Danny in shock. "Oh great. Just what I need, another ghost attack." Danny talked to himself sarcastically. Danny looked around cautiously, then transformed into his alter-ego self, Danny Phantom two white rings appeared at waist height and started heading opposite directions of his body, one up and one down. Soon enough, Danny's raven, black hair and ocean blue eyes were replaced with snow, white hair and glowing, green eyes. A HAZMAT suit with a DP logo appeared instead of Danny's baggy street clothes and Danny looked like he was ready for anything.
Sure enough, Skulker made his way into the Fenton Works dramtically as he phased in throught the roof.
"Hello ghost child. Your time is up." Skulker prepared an ectoplasmic ray gun from his suit and aimed at Danny. "Prepare to get hunted." Skulker cackled. "Guess again metal head." Before Skulker could shoot, Danny destroyed it with an ecto-plasmic ray formed from his hands then charged an ecto-plasmic ball and threw it straight at Skulker's chest. Skulker got hit and ended up with his back on the wall. The noise from the impact was loud enough to attract the attention of Jack and Maddie.
"GHOST!" Jack and Maddie screamed in unison as they snatched their equipment and raced upstairs. "Don't worry kids, we're coming!"
Meanwhile, Danny continued to stall Skulker with freeze rays and ecto-plasmic energy balls but it barely damaged Skulker with his upgraded battle armor.
"You really think you can defeat me with your silly tricks whelp?" Skulker teased. "Nope, but I bet they can." Danny gestured to the ghost hunting parents. Danny avoided their attention to him by going intangible and sinking into the nearest wall which ended up being Jazz's room.
"Freeze, ghost!" Jack whipped out one of his big Fenton Ray Guns and charged it up. Maddie held a similar weapon but it looked slightly larger than Jack's and it contained spikes which made it look more dangerous. "This isn't over!" Skulker said as his last remark before Maddie and Jack blasted the metal headed jerk back to the ghost zone with the gun Jack used.
Meanwhile, Danny quickly switched back to Danny Fenton and looked around Jazz's room to grabbed something to do so it wouldn't look suspicious with him just standing there in the middle of the room. Without a choice, he grabbed a book about Shakespeare and pretended he was reading as he stuck his nose in the boring book Jazz considered "inspiring".
"Danny, are you ok?" Maddie said concerned as she kicked the door open and went striaght to examine her son. "Yeah, I'm okay mom." Danny promised. "Where's you sister?" Mom curiously looked around. "Um, she went out... to the library."
"Hey, what are you doing in Jazz's room?" Jack asked suspiciously. "Um... Jazz asked me to help her on... her science project." Technically, Danny was telling the truth. "Oh, that's so sweet how you help your sister like that honey." Maddie cooed then put her mask back on. "Now Jack, about that fudge..."
"I didn't do it!" Jack called out as he ran back down to the Fenton lab. Danny sighed out with relief. That's when Jazz came back from the library.
"Ok, I got books on ghosts, most ghosts seen, ghosts for dummies..." Jazz went on and on about the tons of books she got while Danny looked at her seriously with his arms crossed across his chest.
"Jazz, is this really nessasary for one stupid science project?" Danny asked. "Of course! Every project needs to be put in with one hundred percent effort! You hear me! ONE HUNDRED PERCENT" Jazz blurted out. Danny stared at her speechless. Wow, I've never seen her this angry before. Why is she taking this so seriously? Danny wondered. Jazz noticed her tone was dangerously loud so she took a deep breath and calmed herself down.
"Look Danny, I'm sorry. It's just that... this science fair means a lot to me and I-" Danny interupted her. "It's ok. I mean, I know how much school means to you and if you want me to read the stupid books, then I'll read them." Jazz beamed and then happily picked up a book about "Ghost's seen daily in Amity Park" and handed shoved it in Danny's grasp. "You can start with this book." Jazz happily looked through the other books and grabbed one about ghost hunting. A sigh of relief came from Danny as he heard the phone ring.
"I'll get it!" Danny yelled out, rushing to the nearest phone but while rushing, he tripped over a small cylinder item. Danny rubbed his head and noticed the strange item. The phone rang for the third time as Danny just pocketed the thing and reached for the phone.
"Hello?" Danny answered.
"Hey Danny, it's Sam. Tucker and I are wondering if you want to meet us at the Nasty Burger right now. It's Loonie Monday today! Each meal is only one dollar."
"Danny! Hurry up on the phone! We need to get started!" Jazz called from upstairs.
Danny sighed in frusteration. Obviously, he would rather spend his time at the Nasty Burger with his only two real friends but he promised his sister to help her on her science project she was taking way too seriously, and it was the right thing to do.
"Sorry Sam, I'm kinda helping Jazz on this science project for the science fair."
"Woah, woah, woah, hold up. Your helping Jazz? With a science project?"
"Yeah, I know. Maybe we could go tomorrow?"
"Can't. I have a goth poetry meeting I have to sneak out to. Besides, how are you going to ghost fight and help Jazz with her project? You barely have time to do your own homework."
"Danny, come on!" Jazz unpatiently shouted.
"Coming!" Danny called back. "Look Sam, I got to go. I'll figure it out. See you."
"Bye." Danny hung up the phone and walked over to the overfilled room of books. Jazz immediately picked up the dropped book and handed it to Danny and ordered him to read. Danny never seen Jazz so strict in his entire life. He guessed it was one of those projects worth 50% of your grade or something.
Danny grabbed the book from Jazz and began reading the article before Jazz got even more upset. Ironically, the page Danny flipped to happened to be about Danny Phantom. Danny looked at the picture labeled in the article of him soaring through the air. Why can't they ever get my good side? Danny complained in his head then went on to reading the article:
Danny Phantom is considered to be the "ghost hero" of Amity Park. When you think he's getting rid of trouble, he's actually causing trouble. Our trustworthy mayor, Vlad Masters honestly can tell the people of Amity Park that Phantom is a dangerous threat to our kind.
Danny stopped reading there because he knew where this was going and scanned through the rest of the book. All the ghosts labeled in the book either hated his guts or wanted his head (especially Skulker). Whoever wrote this book had known all the ghosts names and their actions and also really hated Phantom. Danny peeked at the author: Dalv M. It had Vlad written all over it. That would explain the insults and why he couldn't find Vlad Plasmius in the book.
"Ok, Danny. I need you to go ghost so we can do analysis on ghost behavior." Jazz said. Danny gave her a confused look but he didn't argue. Danny Fenton changed into Danny Phantom but before he could do anything, he heard footsteps approaching Jazz's bedroom. Danny changed back to his human form with no hesitation right before Jack knocked down Jazz's door.
"Where's the ghost? Where is it?" Jack shouted charging his weapon. "Jazz, Danny, you two need to get out of here. There's a ghost about. I finished my Fenton Ghost Finder and it indicates there's a ghost in here." Jack explained with a handheld device that looked like an Iphone 4. Jazz and Danny looked at each other sheepishly as they didn't know what to do. "Ghost? What ghost? I haven't seen any ghosts? Have you Danny?" Jazz lied. "Um... no, I didn't Jazz." Danny went along with their silly lie.
"Please walk straight to find your ghost." The strange device beeped. The device leaded it's way straight to Danny. Jazz quickly stepped in Jack's way. "Dad, I heard there was a ghost downtown of Amity Park! Doesn't that sound exciting?" Jazz desparately tried to distract Jack away from Danny.
"No time Jazz, that ghost has to wait! There's a ghost in the Fenton Works and I'm gonna catch it and rip it apart molecule by molecule!" Jack tried to walk by Jazz but Jazz continued to block his way.
"Dad, did you know ghosts are commonly found in central park? It's like the ghost hag out place! I bet there's a lot of ghosts there you can rip apart molecule by molecule." Jazz tempted her father.
"Please go around the object to find your ghost." The Fenton Ghost Finder said.
"Jazz, what's going on?"
"What do you mean?" Jazz said shaking. She wasn't use to lying so much but it was a good thing she practised some lying for awkward times like this.
"Don't you give me that nonsene Jazz. I know exactly what's going on..." Jazz and Danny both had a panicked look in their eyes for a second. Did their dad really know about Danny's secret? But of course, it was too good to be true. "You two want to be my ghost hunting sidekicks!" Jack cried happily then formed tears in his eyes. "I've dreamed of the day you two would follow in your old man's shoes."
Jazz and Danny both let out a sigh of good relief. "Yeah, um, we want to be ghost fighters, just like you." Danny lied but they were technically already ghost fighters, saving Amity Park daily from ghost attacks, every cornor of the city.
"Well kids, ghost fighting is extremely dangerous and it takes experience to catch a real ghost. In fact, when I was your age..." Jack continued to blabber on about ghosts and his past, giving Jazz a chance to snatch the Ghost Finder and turn it off without Jack noticing. Jazz gave a thumbs up sign to Danny behind her back, telling Danny it was safe.
Jack's blabbing eventually caused Danny and Jazz to go to bored mode. "... And then, BAM!" Danny and Jazz flinched out of boredom when Jack surprised them. "I caught the ghost with one hand behind my back." Jack bragged.
"That's nice dad." Jazz yawned, sounding sarcastic. "Um... we better get back to my science project so if you can just leave now dad."
"But I haven't even told you the part when I-"
"You can tell us all about it later." Jazz said while she pushed her annoying father out of her room. "Right now, Danny and I need to focus on my science project." With that, Jazz shut her bedroom door tightly closed and she made sure her dad had went down the stairs before returning to her project. For the first time, Danny was actually happy they were returning to Jazz's project.
Well? Did you like it? Give me a review and tell me if it's too long, short, boring or if there's too much action. Also, tell me if you want me to continue the story! Don't worry, I'll update soon if you want me to.
-cartoonmaniac24