Prologue
The town of Amity Park was relatively quiet for the duly dubbed Ghost Capital of America. True, there was always some mass of ectoplasm that would disturb the peace or start up a crime spree, but it became no more frequent than you would expect from the humans. In the twenty four years that has passed since the infamous Fenton Portal sparked to life and brought forth the existence of ghosts to this once quiet town, said town has adapted to their new environment.
After the incident that brought all the nations and dimensions together to save their skins, which bears a name in the history books as the "Phantom Planet", the two worlds finally came to acknowledge the brave and noble hero that had saved each of them countless times (mostly from each other). Said brave and noble hero was nothing more that a fourteen year old boy from a nowhere town in the Great Lakes.
Realizing that, the adults felt a little embarrassed.
The world, Amity Park especially, decided to finally learn self-sufficiency when it came to ghost attacks and chose the Fentons to teach them to do just that.
From that the Federal Bureau of Ghostly Affairs, the Ghost-Humans Crimes Unit, and the Thirteenth Precinct came to be.
With Detective Valarie Gray heading the department they were able to keep a steady balance on ghosts crimes. They also had Danny Phantom to thank for that in the beginning, but Detective Gray was too stubborn to even mouth the words in her former adversary's direction.
In the past ten years the Thirteenth Precinct had fewer and fewer caseloads to worry about as the ghosts seemed to have magically stayed on their best behavior. Only Valarie knew that the new peace was for two reasons. The first was that Fenton Portal II, the Ghost Portal Jack Fenton had made after Danny had trashed the first one, was once again destroyed beyond all recognition but this time there was no one around to rebuild it. The second is that the Phantoms, or Fentons as it is written on their birth and marriage certificates, had moved away ten years ago.
Both facts share the same sad story behind them, and she was the first to arrive when the call was made and she was the first to discover… what happened.
But that was ten years ago, at present Valarie is getting a call on her personal cell. She only gave out the number to her personal cell to people very close to her, so when it rang she knew it was important. Pulling her head from her work, Detective Gray picked put the phone and looked at the caller ID. Danny. With a smile she answered the phone.
"Hey Fenton," She said, "its been a while"
"Hey Detective," Danny teased, "how's the haunt without me there to protect it?"
"Fine actually, it's a lot more quiet without you zipping around with Skulker on your ghostly tail. I starting to miss the action part of my job."
"Glad to hear that, because we've got some news. We were hoping to tell you and Tucker together but since you hardly talk to each other we're going to the next best thing and tell you at the same time. Sam is on the phone with Tucker right now."
"Telling him what?" She said, but somehow she figured out the news before he had to tell her.
"The Fentons are moving back to Amity Park!"
When she heard that an explosion of emotions went off in her head. True, she was on good terms with Phantom after she found out that he was her ex-boyfriend. She actually became good friends with him and Sam after time. They even became godparents to her children. But she still had that uncomfortable feeling when she pictures the ghost boy, now a ghost man, flying around town without her in pursuit.
"That's great!" Valarie said with slight hesitance, luckily Danny couldn't detect it. She was very glad this wasn't a video call, "When?"
"Two days," Danny replied, "we are planning to pack everything in the Speeder and getting down there when people are at work."
"Afraid of a good old fashioned fan riot on your doorstep" She said with a smirk. She heard him laugh a little on the other end.
"We thought we'd try not to drop a heavy workload on your team on our first day"
"You want me to help you move?"
"No, we've got that covered, but if you could bring over the paperwork for us that would be great. We want to get that over with as soon as possible."
The Bystander Contract, Valarie knew, was the paperwork Phantom had to sign every time he moved into a new town, or in this case an old town. The legal jargon is easily translated as: "because I have ghost powers, I have to help the police catch ghost criminals." What surprised her the most was that he said "us" instead of "me". Danny was the only one who had to sign it as he was the only "able bodied, ghost-human hybrid of immense power" around. Unless…
"I'm guessing she's going past the basics?" Valarie said, trying to hide her anxiety.
"They came in a while back, she only had to sign when they caught her skipping school while taking a test at the same time."
"How does that fare with her?"
"You'll see for yourself, come in at one. We'll have everything set up by then." and he hung up.
Valarie placed the phone on her desk and stared at it for a while.
The Fentons are coming back to Amity Park, bringing over all their ghostly adversaries with them and making her job a lot harder. She can handle the ghosts just fine. She really did her days flying around town in a jet sled shooting down all the baddies in her red jumpsuit. The real trouble was having Phantom join the force, stealing her spotlight, being admired by the city for breaking every rule and expensive building in sight. Phantom …and his daughter.