Chapter 1 - A Glum Beginning
Two years after the events of Phantom Planet and the Disasteroid incident.
Eighteen year old Danny and Sam are leaving the school building along with a mass of noisy teens for the very last time.
"I gotta tell you Sam, there were times when I felt like high school would never end." Danny yelled slightly in Sam's direction in order to be heard in all the commotion surrounding them.
"You mean during Mr. Lancer's "enthusiastic" graduation speech?" said Sam with a smirk as she slightly nudged Danny in the sides with her elbow.
"Heh, you can say that again. But I really mean it. I feel like a weight has been lifted and that life is just now starting." Danny replied as he took hold of Sam's hand.
"You know, I am going to miss all of this" said Sam.
"Really?" asked Danny as he slightly raised his eyebrow.
"Well… kind of" smirked Sam "in a weird way"
They had already exited the school grounds and walked quite a bit without really realizing it. They stood at a crossroad. A crossroad that had become very familiar to them as a year prior Sam and her family had moved. This had sadly meant the discontinuation of their usual shtick of walking together. It was time to go their separate ways for the day.
"So… I'll see you tomorrow?" said Sam
"Tomorrow? Don't you want to celebrate? We'll meet up with Tucker and…"
"Sorry Danny, I wish I could but I really can't, I'm supposed to be meeting with the tutor that will be preparing me for the university entry exams this summer." informed Sam as she cut him off.
"Oh… bummer. Guess that tomorrow it is then." said Danny as he scratched the back of his neck and averted his gaze from her.
Sam leaned in and gave him a quick peck on the cheek.
"That's a promise" She said as she let go of his hand and headed home. "I'll see you tomorrow" she said again as she waved at him. Danny smiled and waved back at her before turning around and heading home himself. Moments later the skies darkened as storm clouds amassed almost abnormally fast. A heavy rain came pouring down. By the time Danny arrived at his front door he was drenched from head to toe. He shook himself off a bit and entered the house. He looked back outside.
*Man, it doesn't look like I'll be going anywhere today* he thought to himself as the rain really didn't seem like it was going to stop any time soon.
Danny went into the kitchen to grab something to munch on as he was feeling hungry but not enough to have a whole meal at the moment. As he stepped into the kitchen, he immediately noticed his dad scrambling around the fridge and cupboards almost as if in desperation. Danny took a few more steps in his direction before attempting to get his attention.
"Dad, what are you doing?"
Jack quickly turned around only to see his son completely wet, dripping and getting water on the kitchen floor.
"SON, what has happened?" half screamed Jack as he grabbed Danny by the shoulders with a worried questioning look in his eyes. Danny took a quick look at himself and replied:
"Oh, this? It's nothing. Just some rain storm came out of nowhere. I'll go dry myself off in a bit."
"Huh? What are you talking about boy?"
"Ummm… what are you talking about?" Danny asked confused.
"You don't know? It's TERRIBLE, a CATASTROPHY I tell you!" yelled Jack as he shook Danny.
"What? What is it dad?" Danny asked worried as he got ready to transform into his ghost form to address the issues.
"The fudge… It's all GONE!" Jack yelled as he moved out of the way to reveal the fridge containing nothing but empty fudge packages. "What kind of monster is so twisted as to not only eat my precious fudge supply but to put all of the empty cans back in the fridge?" asked way Jack as a single tear made its way down his face. "Danny use your ghost powers to find the one responsible for this injustice" pleaded Jack.
"Oookay, dad you know I don't use my powers just for anything, and before you say something I understand that this isn't just anything for you but it's hardly a reason to go ghost so… I'll leave you to your… mystery." Said Danny as he gently removed the hands of his father form his shoulders, grabbed and apple and exited the kitchen. He made his way into his room as he shook his head slightly. He took a bit out of his apple before putting it on his desk in order to undress. As soon as he changed clothes, Danny took his apple and lazily flopped on his bed. The motion almost knocked his phone down on the ground but he was able to catch it before it slipped away. Crossing his legs and getting comfy on his bed he began toying with his phone. This went on for quite a bit. At some point Danny had dozed off. His nap however was not meant to be as he was rudely awakened by the sound of thunder and the flash of lighting emitting from his window, lighting up his entire room as if it was day, startling him in the process.
*What time is it?* wondered Danny as he noticed that his room was rather dark. He shifted in his bed to position himself to face the window. It wasn't nightfall just yet but the still raging storm was blocking almost all of the sunlight. Danny rose from bed and stretched lazily as he made his way across the room towards the window. Upon reaching his destination and having a better look outside he was surprised to realized that not only was the rain not stopping but it had actually gotten a lot worse. The streets were covered with water to the point where you could only see half of the tires of parked cars.
"Flood." Danny whispered just barely loud enough to hear himself.
"Hmm… Oh well, guess I'm not going anywhere today. Might as well take a shower and see what's there to do around the house." Just as he mouthed off the words, Danny was hit with an instant flashback of his father's fudge mystery. "Actually make that, what's there to do online instead." Danny said to himself as he made his way to the bathroom.
Meanwhile in another part of Amity Park, Sam was threading through the watery streets. Making her way back home.
"Out of all the days it had to rain! After everything I've done for you NATURE!" She begrudgingly spoke to herself while trying to cover herself from the unrelenting rainfall with her bag.
"Almost there." Sam said as she was nearing her home. She made her way to the place where there was usually a walkway but the all the pouring rain was reducing visibility in general and the amassed water was making it impossible to spot. Sam had barely made two steps on the road as two bright lights appeared as if out of nowhere. The sound of breaks accompanied by a splash, were the sounds that shortly followed…
