Ben and forms are from Cartoon Network/Man of Action
Jake Long is from Disney
Danny Fenton/Phantom is from Nickelodeon
Ghoul School is from Hannah-Barbara
Aided by Vanessa Masters
Ben, Jake, Danny Ghoul School
Chapter 1: New job = new problems
The sky was dark with thunderstorm clouds on a out of nowhere location, and most people would stay indoors when the sky was as black as pitch, but one lone RV was out on that road driving to an unusual location. "I can't believe that Grandpa Max not only found his old Rustbucket, but let me use it for this job you signed us up for, Danny." A brown haired fifteen year old, who went by Ben Tennyson, said as he drove the clanking vehicle to their job.
"Neither can I, Ben, but I just wish it was the one that porcupine guy stole instead of this model." A raven haired teenager, who went by Danny Fenton, said back as he sat on a booth chair watching as the dreary road went past them.
"I just can't believe that our grandpa's knew of your parents." A green/black haired teen who went by Jake Long said as he sat shotgun. The group may have just met less then a few weeks ago, but they already knew more then enough about each other. The team knew that Jake was a dragon that over looked the United States, and helped out with magical situations. Danny Fenton was a ghost hybrid that went by Danny Phantom when in hero mode and had ghost problems to deal with. Ben Tennyson was an alien shape shifter with various villains to deal with.
"One things for sure it was nice of grandpa to give me the combination of unlocking all the other guys that I've used along with a stunt that I tried back in the bayou five years ago." The watch holder said as he drove closer to their destination.
"You're probably wanting to use those heroes to get a girlfriend." Danny said with a mixture of satisfaction that he knew that he was right and downheartedness.
"There's that after what happened with Julie I need something, and from what you guys told me so do you." Ben said back since Jake told them what happened with a girl by the name of Rose a little after they left Amity Park and Danny told them what happened between him and a girl by the name of Sam halfway there.
"True, but I doubt there's a girl that can kick as much butt has Rose did." The dragon said, defending his ex. The rest of the trip went by pretty calmly until the RV hit a pothole which caused the trio to bounce for a bit despite all of them wearing a safety belt.
"Everybody, okay?" Ben questioned with his eyes still on the road.
"We're both okay, but I feel a draft." The dragon savior said back to the driver. The Bellwood hero looked at the New Yorker with a questionable look on his face before seeing that the side door to their vehicle was wide open.
"Oh, man, our gear." Tennyson shouted and then activated auto pilot before rushing to the open door.
"I'll get it." Danny offered to the driver, but then saw a bright green flash followed by a black and white creature with a blue face stand where Ben just stood.
"Nah, you guys relax I got this." The speed creature said before running off, and in two short trips he got the training equipment, that they didn't secure properly, back inside the RV. The speed demon then tapped the hourglass symbol on his chest and went back to normal.
"I'll tell you one thing guys I can't wait to get to this fancy girl school to have some of their fancy cooking." Ben said to his friends as he sat back at the driver's seat, and deactivated the auto-pilot.
"Me too. All the Ghost Zone specials have made me hankering for some actual food." Danny said as he recalled of all the non-lethal recipes his mother got from the Lunch Lady Ghost and the fact that she actually cooked them all - everyday since then.
"In the mean time I think Spud put some grub in the glove compartment." Long said to the others and pulled out two pieces of bread. "Here it is." He added before seeing a green flash through the corner of his left eye followed by a green vine around the sandwich; which retracted back to the owner.
"Thanks." A plant class creature that Ben called Wildvine said to the discoverer of food before turning back to normal. Once human again Ben bit down into it, but something was off as he slowed down his chewing before he finally swallowed.
"Tastes funny." He said before taking firm hold of the wheel with one hand and used the other to grab the main event of the sandwich while letting the pieces of bread to fall to the floor. "That explains it - any of you order roadmap on rye." He commented after seeing that he made a paper doughnut with their map.
"Hmm? How did that?" Jake thought before seeing a note on the still open glove compartment. After picking it up he read it aloud:
'If you guys are reading this then you have found the roadmap. I put it in a sandwich for safe keeping. Trixie said that it was a whack idea, but I knew that you would find it.
Signed,
Spud,'
"That's Spud for ya." Jake whispered after reading the paper. The rest of the trip went uneventful until the transformer arrived at a fork in the road.
"I think we're lost." He said aloud while still going down the road in search of their school. A few minutes after saying that a building stood before them luckily Ben slowed to a stop before the gate.
"No, we're not. There's the school. Not half bad, Ben, not bad at all." Jake commented after realizing that the building before them was some form of school.
"Only the best for us hero types." Ben answered back to his dragon partner before giving off a laugh. It was not until after that laugh that he saw the sign on the wall that he got the idea, "Huh?! Military School! That's not right; we're looking for Miss Grimwood's Finishing School for Girls." Ben said after reading the sign before them.
"That must be it - next door." Danny said after floating from his seat to the front and pointed out a rundown house beside the structurally sound brick building. The three of them knew that this place had their brand of normal, but they hoped not since they were wanting this to be a brake from their usual brand of fun.
"Looks like no one's home." Ben said after driving away from the Military school and over to the female school. "Since we all were raised with manners maybe we should come back some other time." Ben said since the feeling of weirdness has gotten stronger.
"Guess those are motion sensor gate doors if maybe a little slow." The ghost said to them after seeing the steel doors open to them. Tennyson took a deep breath and then drove forward.
"The true Rustbucket running true to form." Ben said as the wiper blades stopped working. "I'll just have to use one more of my heroes." Ben added and was about to transform again until Long spoke out.
"I got this." He said before adding, "Dragon Up!" After he said he a red scaled dragon sat where the boy once sat. The hero opened the door, which XLR8 closed, and closed it again with his tail before flying to the roof and used his own tail as the new wiper. "How's that, Ben?" He questioned while swaying his tail.
"Much better, Jake, I can see the driveway a lot better." Ben shouted back, and that was when he saw the home that they will be working at. "Maybe I was better off in the dark." Ben said after getting a better look at the home and the tingling on his back was getting stronger.
"Overall this place aint half bad. I mean it even has a moat." The ghost boy said aloud while pointing at the round river.
"Moat?!" Ben shouted in alarm.
"And no drawbridge." Jake said and took flight before Ben hit the brakes.
"Now what do we do?" Danny questioned to the others and then added. "All of us can fly over, but we want to make a good impression with the civilian girls.
"I got this." Ben said to the others and then used the Omnitrix while muttering under his breath, "I just hope that I can control him." The brown haired hero then activated a turncoat of a form - Ghostfreak.
"Ghostfreak!" He shouted once fully formed and then floated over to the door, but not before turning to face them. "I will lower the bridge so you two can cross." He informed before phasing through the door, but for the last tip of his latest form stayed in between the inside and outside of the door.
'I knew that you were going to be difficult.' Ben thought as he placed the clawed hands on the tail and began to pull. Ghostfreak, a living member of the watch, may be in a perfect position to take Ben over, but the spirit was using this moment to make things difficult.
'You know me too well, boy." Ghostfreak shouted back before phasing the last piece of tail through the door and then powered down.
"Ugh. That was fun. Now, how do I lower a drawbridge?" Ben said and questioned before getting to his feet and looked around. Unknown to him was a strange purple bat watching him as the stranger walked around before meeting a small green dragon. "Oh, hi there." He said in a friendly manner while waving at the smaller creature.
'Intruder. Military probably.' The dragon muttered as he glared at the hero. Tennyson watched as tail glowed red, then the torso, and all the way up to the head.
"Bad Dragon! Bad, bad Dragon." The alien avenger shouted in pure terror as he about faced, but was not fast enough as the green one lit the teen's pants of fire which caused him to collide with a whole row of suits of armor.
"From the sound of it, Ben likes to arrive at places with a big bang." Jake commented since he used his 'ear of the dragon' after the ghost phased through door, and heard all of the commission.
"Oh, great, my head's stuck." Ben mumbled with a knight helmet secured to his head. The teen then activated the watch and chose a new hero to get him out of this mess.
"Goop!" The green coated creature shouted and with a little help by an anti gravity device forced himself out through a slotted eye holes, and then changed back to normal.
"No wonder the Forever Knights are always in a bad mood. These helmets are evil." He shouted before kicking the helmet he was just wearing. The head gear flew to a drawbridge chain and then landed on the small dragon who was watching the whole thing.
"Come on Danny, I'll race you inside." Jake said and ran on the just deployed bridge. The ghost hybrid followed his lead however unknown to them was that the moat did not use traditional crocodiles, but shark who watched the two run.
'So that's what this guy wants: to tick me off.' The dragon muttered while in the helmet before using his flames to disintegrate the helmet. 'Now your going to get it.' The angered security mumbled and headed over to the teen.
"That's weird. Why do I smell smoldering metal?" Ben questioned before glancing over and saw the pet dragon storm over to him. "Oh yeah forgot about you." Tennyson said before backing away from the angered protector. "If you want I fight you got a fight. Going Big Chill." He announced after programming it in and was about to slam it down until a female voice caught both of their attention.
"Matches? Come here." The female voice said, and the watch wearer saw the long faced look so the teen knew the dragon was in trouble, but he followed the green scaled one until he stopped by a raven haired woman in a pink and red outfit. "Bad boy. I hope he didn't scare you?" The woman said to Ben, who deactivated the pre-selected hero.
"Me? Of course not ma`am. That little spitfire was just doing what he thought was right." Tennyson said back to her with a soft smile to show that he did not hold a grudge to the dragon creature.
"Hey, Jake, you didn't tell us that one of your relation was gonna be here." Danny said after entering the building first due to his lengthier legs.
"What do you mean?" The New Yorker questioned arriving in third place, so he was a little slow on what was happening.
"I think he means that dragon guard dog." Ben explained to his fellow protector.
"Matches can get a little feisty around strangers… but once he gets to know you, he's fine." The female from earlier explained to the trio; she watched as her dragon was walking toward the green/black haired one.
"Yo, nice to meet a fellow good dragon. I'm Jake Long." The Mystical American said while transforming his left hand to claw form for a handshake. Matches took it without question. "And of course you have met my latest friend - Ben Tennyson." Jake added while gesturing to the changeling with his human hand. Matches snarled at the human in question.
"Hi there." Ben said in a nervous tone while waving his hand at the dragon.
"Then you must be Danny Fenton." The woman said to the third person in their party. "I'm Miss Grimwood, head mistress of this finishing school." She added, introducing herself to the group before her.
"It is an honor to meet you, ma`am." Danny said polity to the woman and then extended his hand for a handshake, but instead of gaining the female's hand he instead grabbed a floating white hand. "Okay, that's a little creepy." Danny said after being released from the hand's grip.
"I thought you might like a hand with you're luggage." Grimwood said to the participant, and the ghost could tell that she was trying to be funny which was okay by him. A howl was heard from somewhere near them, and that caused the trio get on the defensive.
"Thank you for the suggestion." The specter said back to her as he tried not to use his ghost powers, but one of them did activate - his ghost breath. 'A ghost must be nearby, but which one I told them that I signed up for this.' Danny thought before hearing the mistress' voice.
"Oh, dear, you must be getting cold." She said in concern even though that with the help of two ageless beings she already knew of the secrets behind them. The woman gestured to the door and the hand floated over to it and shut it. "There now you should feel just fine." The headmistress said to the youth.
"Thank you, Miss Grimwood." Fenton said back to her, acting as though that her act really was a benefit. As that conversation was going on Ben spotted a purple bat roosting on the underside of some stairs, but it started to flap around them.
'What a strange bat?' Tennyson though, and for some reason he found himself thinking of his horror-themed aliens. As the keeper of the Omnitrix was thinking if there was a vampire creature Miss Grimwood spoke to the group again.
"Just so you understand that you have a contract of being this school's gym teachers, Danny." The head female said to while magically summoning the paper they signed back in Amity Park thanks to Gwen, Ben's cousins: fast thinking. "This is your signature, is it not?" She questioned after unrolling the paper and pointed at the main name.
"Yes, yes it is." The young phantom said to the woman after seeing his human name and the fact that he used his ghost powers to write his hero name as small as he could.
"You bet it is. Ben and I even witnessed it, right pal?" Jake question since he too saw his signature. Tennyson walked over to it and carefully looked to see if he used everybody.
"Let's see - Heatblast, Wildmutt, Diamondhead, XLR8, Grey Matter, Fourarms, Stinkfly, Ripjaws, Upgrade, Ghostfreak, Cannonbolt, Wildvine, Benwolf, Benmummy, Benvicktor, Upchuck, Ditto, Way Big, Eye Guy, Swampfire, Echo Echo, Humongousaur, Jetray, Big Chill, Chromastone, Brainstorm, Spidermonkey, Goop, Alien X, and Eon." Ben said while making sure that he used all the aliens that he had used so far. The teen recalled how hard it was to write as Way Big and Humongousaur let alone Alien X. 'At least the world wasn't in trouble. I just hope those two know what I just stepped into.' Tennyson thought
"Good. Now that's settled. Come. I want you to meet my girls." Grimwood said to the trio, and that was when the flyer that was looking at them from the ceiling came down to them. "Ah, here's one of them now." She added after spotting the same purple bat that Ben spotted.
"Pardon my French, but don't be batty that's no girl." Danny said aloud to the headmistress as the bat came down closer to them, but in a bright flash: similar to a certain hero's transformation, a teenaged girl stood before them.
"What's wrong with batty?" She questioned after appearing in her human form and then added, "I'm Sibella, Count Dracula's daughter. Fang-tastic to meet you." The trio looked at the purple toned female, but it was Ben that was speechless for once.
'I haven't felt this way since back in New Mexico five years ago.' Ben thought while staring at her; luckily a wolf howl knocked him back to the present. The three of them looked over at the source of the noise and saw an orange haired girl in a blue dress, and brown fur howling out the open window to their right.
"Wow, a werewolf!" Jake exclaimed as he spotted the second female student of this home. 'Haven't seen one of them since I had grandpa started dating again…wonder if…nah.' He thought starting and cancelling the same thought.
"Winnie the Werewolf, to be exact." Grimwood informed the trio and then added, "Come down and meet your new teacher's Winnie." The wolf creature heard her mistress and headed over to the group.
"Hello." The young lady said with a howl as she walked over to the teens.
"Yeah, you are one fine canine." Jake said to her with a smile before catching a whiff of something. "Mouth of the dragon." He said and just like that his human mouth and nose was replaced with a dragon's mouth and nose. The dragon then began to sniff around.
"Food?" Ben questioned while trying to get his mind off of the beauty before him. His new friend nodded and pointed over to it.
"Yep. That way." He said and just like that the three of them made a dash to the source of the smell. Just as they were almost there Jake had to come to a screeching halt since there was another female blocking them.
"Hi, I'm Elsa Frankenteen." A teen in a green outfit and black/white hair said to the three of them with a thumb pointing at herself.
"You know what? After eating that piece of map I'm not really hungry how about we check the rest of this place out - hero style." Ben suggested to them while pointing at his watch. He got a nod from the other two, and with that they transformed.
"Going ghost!" Danny shouted which summoned a white ring around his waist which separated and covered his upper and lower half ending with him wearing a black and white hazmat suit; white hair and green eyes were part of the deal. "See ya up there." He said as he flew off.
"Dragon up." Jake announced and with a blast of mystic fire a red dragon appeared with a black/green mane. "Later Ben." He said as he flew off, but that did not leave Ben out of the running.
"Not bad, but not as good as…." Ben said in a boastful tone while programming in a ray-like creature, but after he slammed it down, and the light dimmed that was not who he was.
"Jetray!" He shouted before looking at his hands and feeling how many legs he had. "Looks like I'll have to catch up to them as Stinkfly - my first flyer." The transformed man said before going after them.
"I guess they're anxious to find their rooms. They must be tired." The headmistress assumed after watching the ghost, dragon, and insect fly away.
"They don't fly like they're tired." The franken-creature said after watching them leave as well.
"Yeah, you'd think they've never met a girl ghoul before." The vampire said after hearing her friend's comment, and seeing them as well, but the only difference was that she tried not to think of this strange feeling after seeing Ben when he first came it. The four of them all shared a group laugh after what she had said. The trio was still unaware that there were going to be some more strange encounters to come.