"Sam! Tucker! Hang in there I'll get you out of there!" Danny Fenton yelled up to his best friends as they struggled to try and escape their ectoplasmic bindings.
"We'll see about that whelp!" Skulker replied slyly, making aim at the recently changed Danny Phantom, who was charging straight for Skulker. He fired off six missiles towards Danny, making a bunch of smoke as they exploded. Skulker gave a satisfied nod and waited for Danny to come out from the cloud wall miraculously unscathed, and being correct with his prediction as the first hint of Danny's green eyes as they glowed like two emerald green spots that clashed with the grey color of the smoke.
"It'll take much more than that to bruise me," Danny said, propping a hand on his hip as a smirk appeared on his face. Skulker only smiled back and all in a flash; raised his arm, aimed at Danny's head, and fired a strange new projectile, hitting Danny spot on. The projectile became a blindfold that wrapped itself around Danny's head tightly, and as he tried to rip it free from his face Skulker shot another one, catching both of Danny's legs and making him plummet to the ground. For the final touch, he then shot Danny's hands to his head.
"Those you won't be able to escape, I made sure of that," and with that only, Skulker vanished, the endoplasmic bonds that held Sam and Tucker hostage vanishing with him. They both quickly started pulling off the nets, but it was to no avail as they fell back and the nets snapped back in place on Danny's face.
"Great, now how do I go home with this on?" Danny complained, it's been two years since the day he received his powers, so why is this such a difficult task?! Danny growled, phasing back into his human form, the nets still holding fast to his head.
"Maybe that's what we need to do, stay as Danny Fenton for a while. Your parents could probably get this off," Sam suggested, grabbing Danny's arm to guide him home as Tucker got on the other side of Danny.

"Come to me, my child. I've summoned you for an important reason, so make haste, for time isn't on our side," Clockwork growled, watching the screen of three who were walking away from the screen. Right then, a cloaked figure appeared in front of him, soft glowing white eyes peering up at Clockwork expectantly.
"You summoned me sir," the figure stated with a monotone voice, without any emotion. He nodded his head approvingly," This boy right here, Danny Fenton a.k.a. Danny Phantom. He's heading for an ill-fated future. I know I shouldn't be interrupting the time line, but there is an alternative way to go which can save him," He explained. The shorter figure nodded their head, understanding.
"What is my task sir? Seeing as you summoned me from limbo," the figure asked. Clockwork shifted uneasily into his child form.
"I need you to depart for the human world and protect him with every molecule of your body, understood? You must devote yourself completely to protecting him. Once you have done it, your soul just may be set free from limbo," Clockwork said, at this the figure only nodded their head and shot through the circular glass screen and into the human world of Amity Park.

"You said a ghost did this to you?" Jack Fenton had asked for about the seventh time. Danny growled, annoyed by this point in time.
"Yes Dad, it was some ghost that shot me with this weird weapon," Danny answered once again, his mother, Maddie Fenton was working on cutting off the net, which was surprisingly working after Skulker had said he wouldn't be able to escape. In a matter of minutes, Danny had his head and hands free. Now all he needed was his legs to be cut and he'd be free. Sam and Tucker were waiting for him in his room.
"Well good thing that Skul- ghost left you alone, else who knows where or what you would've become!" Jazz exclaimed, quickly throwing a false smile to her parents as they finished cutting the last of the bonds and were about to throw them away. They left with Jack ruffling Danny's hair and Maddie giving him a motherly kiss on his forehead, Danny looked over towards Jazz; who was giving him a skeptical look.
"Alright Jazz, it was Skulker, he has a new weapon that renders whatever part of me is shot useless," Danny explained. Jazz only smiled and nodded as she wrote it down in her notebook of ghostly activity, and with that she retired to her room. As did Danny.
"So now that Skulker has a new toy how should we approach it, because it may be able to do more than just the net shot," Tucker asked as Danny crashed on his bed next to him, Sam sitting in his office chair next to his laundry hamper.
"I dunno, but right now I want to curl up and sleep, it IS summer and I DID just got out of driver's ed," Danny said, curling up with his back facing his friends. Both of them rolled their eyes towards their friend's lazy attitude.
"Well at least that's over with," Tucker said, Sam shot a look at him and shook her head in disbelief as Danny held up a thumbs up to tell Tucker,"that's exactly what I'm saying,"
Later that evening, after Sam and Tucker left for home, Danny begrudgingly headed down the stairs to the kitchen to join his family for dinner. Now he was the brag of the family, instead of talking how good Jazz had done on a test they were talking about how proud they were of hearing how brave their son was in such a terrible situation. He narrowed his eyes with a smirk and looked towards Jazz, who only smiled back at him.

"I'm finished, may I be excused? I want to call up Tucker and Sam before I head to bed," Danny gave as an excuse. once he was excused from the table, he raced upstairs, quickly logging on to video chat with Tucker and Sam.

"Well look who's on," Tucker said in place of a greeting. Danny chuckled, rubbing the back of his head.

"How'd it go over dinner? Did Jazz ask about anything?" Sam asked. Danny nodded his head,"Yeah, Jazz got the truth, and my parent's were shockingly impressed with how 'brave' I was. Now if they only saw what I see on a daily basis." That got a couple of laughs out of his friends. All of a sudden, there was crackling heard over the audio of his friend's voices.

"Hang on what did you say guys? I think I got feedback in that," Danny said, making sure his headphones were plugged in completely. The same exact crackling was heard, it even continued after Sam had finished talking. Danny growled in frustration,"I think there's something up with my computer guys, I'm gonna get off for the night. G'night, I'll see ya tomorrow." With that, he exited the video chat and powered down his computer, but now before testing out something. He clicked on his music file, pressing play on a song. He heard nothing but the crackling again, but this time there was something else in the background, it sounded like-breathing? He shook his head and turned off his computer and curling up in his bed to sleep.

The next day brought even more trouble than the day before. Ember was trying to hypnotize every one once again, and there was always the Box Ghost to chase off from his stupid plans of taking over the world with cardboard boxes. Danny sighed, today was a really slow, hot, miserable day and all he wanted to do was stay inside in the cool air conditioning.

"Do we have anywhere else to check on our rounds?" Danny asked below him, glancing down towards Tucker and Sam. Tucker checked his trusty little PDA, and with a shaking of his head Danny dropped out of the sky like dead weight and into an alley to change back into Danny Fenton.

"That's a relief, so now that our rounds are over you want to go see a movie or do something inside?" Danny asked. Tucker laughed and was about to say something until he was cut off by screaming in the distance. Danny let out a furious growl, checking around him before changing into Danny Phantom out in the open and flying off towards the explosions. Not to his surprise, there was Skulker.

"You're being awfully flashy for someone who's supposed to be a hunter," Danny remarked, cocking a half smile as Skulker turned around toward him with a devious smile,"Maybe that's how I'd like to be, considering you're going to show up wherever I fire my weapons." Danny fell back, barely missing a missile as it flew past him and crashed in to the windows of a building behind him. Right as he turned away to dodge another one, Skulker shot off more missiles. Boom! Boom! Boom! Hit!

Danny was sent spiraling to the ground as the bonds tightened around his arms, pinning them to his sides. He crash landed, leaving a small impact crater when he did. Now Skulker was floating directly above him, a triumphant smile on his face as he took aim with a new gun directly at Danny's chest. Beads of sweat began to form on Danny's forehead as he desperately squirmed to try and escape. He heard a loud click as the trigger began to give way to Skulker's finger that was closing in around it. There was a loud bang and a bright flash as Danny slamed his eyes shut, turning his head away. There was a long moment of silence until Danny braved a look, astonished to find he wasn't dead, he looked up, seeing the silouhette of his savior as they stood tall in front of him and deflected the bullets with a shield.

His jaw fell open as he stared at the stranger, "Wh-who are you?!"