Hello Everybody, new story.
I don't own Danny Phantom, so don't try anything.
Enjoy!
The accident
Clockwork frowned as his screens buzzed out for a few seconds before coming back. It showed a new reality, different from the previous two realities. Instead of the normal 3 time streams that occurred from the decision made by a certain family, 7 were formed. He had known what happened in the other 3 as he had seen it all, but the new 4 were different. Something powerful enough to escape his sight had done this, in fact there were only a handful he knew of.
"Don't worry Master Of Time, those alternate timelines have no effect on the original 3." the most ancient of beings said.
Clockwork was startled, as he could not see this beings actions before they are done. The Primordial, creator of Chaos and the universe. For him to take interest in the life of a mortal is a big honour and has a lot of implications. However what shocked the Master Of Time even more was to see Chaos next to him, giving Clockwork the sense that this was far larger than he would have thought.
"How may I assist you with this matter, my lords?" Clockwork asked with a bow.
"There is nothing to be done with this timeline at the moment, however should the need arise for your help, do it without hesitation." The Primordial was old, but friendly. "Oh, don't call me lord. It makes me feel that we are unable to be friends, so just call me Zenith."
"And call me Kay, short for Chaos. Sides, your kind of cute for a ghost. Maybe we could go out sometime." Chaos said and winked.
Zenith sighed. "Would you stop being so... So you? No wonder the humans from that other dimension dubbed you Chaos. We are not supposed to interfere with these universes and besides that, I thought you were dating that boy Chronos."
"Can never keep yourself narrow minded to all the options available. I mean, it could be a eon and we break up, then I'll move on and he would to." she said casually.
"I wonder what Gaia would say about this, your mother would be very unhappy with your behaviour." Chaos paled at the mention of her mother while Zenith smirked. "Well off we go, we will meet again Master of Time." he said back to his original mysterious behaviour and disappearing in a soft whooshing sound.
Danny was busy working on one of his parents invention along with his sister, they were busy doing the wiring while their mother was doing the programing and their father ate fudge... Like always. With Jasmine's work complete, she went to complete her little pet project, a pair of glasses designed to translate every known language. It needed some tweaking with the way it messes up the translations, because she certainly didn't want another thing like Google Translate. Danny however needed to do the final check on the device before it would be complete.
His mother had designed a sweet she called the dimension suit that looked similar to a sleek space suit without the fishbowl head. Thanks to the breakthrough in carbon nano-tube construction, she was able to build a super durable lightweight suite, with enough strength to create internal pressure safe for humans to live in. The head of the wearer was incase in a force field to insure unobscured vision and had the added benefit of being able to almost any projectile fired at it. His mother had also added a few weapons to the suite incase of hostiles in the foreign enviroment.
Basically, it was the suite NASA wanted but couldn't make and didn't know already existed. He slipped on the suite, feeling the material stretching and conforming to his shape. It was one size fits all, that included his father amazingly.
"Doing the final check guys!" he yelled.
He walked inside the pocket device that would contain the dimension, to see if everything is in place and in working order. Unfortunately for Danny, his father had done sloppy work in his excitement to complete the device and left a mess of wires inside. The wire tripped him and he instinctively grabbed the safety switch, turning the machine on with him inside. Warning bells flared and Maddie looked up from her computer to see her terrified son in the middle of their ghost-portal.
"Danny!" was the last thing she shouted before thousands of volts raced thru his body, not even mentioning the alien substance being generated to open the portal.
Her shout caused Jack and Jasmine to race to her side, but it was too late and all they could do was watch in horror as their son and brother was disintegrated by a bright white light. Jack rushed and pulled out the power generator, but the portal had reached self sustaining levels, where not even pulling out the original power source helped. He had to watch as the last bit of his son was disintegrated and the white light turn green.
"He... He's gone."Jazz managed to choke out before she fell to her knees sobbing.
A sudden flash of light caught their attention, in the center of the green swirling portal something was forming inside a white mass of light. Slowly a figure formed out of the energy before being spat out of the green vortex. A boy with snow white hair and a suit the same as their son's stood before then, only the suite was inverted colours from the original. The panting boy looked up revealing neon lime green eyes and their son's face, but as he tried to stand, his legs gave and fell to the floor. A white arc of electricity flowed over his body and he changed into their son.
"Wha-what just happened?" Maddie asked.
Nobody could answer her question, but as parents, they knew they had to help their son no matter what. They had done this to him and they would have to make sure he was alright. Jack checked his son's vitals, finding a few odd anomalies. His son's heart rate and breathing had slown, but according to the suits biometric scanners his brain activity was heightened. It also showed a drastic increase in body mass as well as a significant decrease in weight.
It was abnormal, but the blood work they got was mind-boggling. His cells were shifting back in forth between an abnormal one and a regular one, two thirds always being normal. The rest of the tests only confirmed that their was a foreign substance present in his entire DNA sequence. Only Danny could tell them what was happening, that is when and if he wakes up.
Later that night when they went to bed, Maddie sat in bed with a serious expression on her face waiting for Jack. When he finally joined her and noticed the expression, he knew they were going to have a talk about something, he had been thinking about something as well, but wanted to wait until morning to talk about it.
"Jack..." she started, but he cut her off.
"I know, we did this to him with our stupid obsession about ghosts, turning him into what he is now. A phantom, but I have no intention of harming him and every intention on helping him get thru this mess. I think we should take him out of school for this semester and home school him until we can be sure he is safe." He said
Maddie looked at him, a smile gracing her features. She knew underneath the exterior of a bumbling idiot, Jack was an intelligent and thoughtful man. He didn't show it all the time, but when he did show that side of him, she was always amazed at what it brought out of him. That was the reason she fell in love with him and not Vlad, she knew Vlad was angry at Jack for getting her, but he was just not what she liked in a man. She came back to the real world when she heard he spoke again.
"I love him Maddie, and it is all my fault. I try to protect my family, but end up causing more harm that the outside world. Even the safety features inside the machine causes harm, I am so sorry..." he told her, his voice breaking as he talked. "Your always cleaning up my messes, I try to be good Maddie, but I am no good. I bet if I haven't seen this happen I would have hunted him and caused him harm."
"It's okay Jack, nobody is perfect and I am sure we will get thru this, Danny is strong." she said with a smile. "Jack I love you, and don't you ever think that your causing us a lot of harm. It's an occupational hazard of loving you."
The following morning, they were awoken with a scream, everybody rushed towards Danny's room expecting something bad, but nothing could have prepared them for this. Their son was stuck halfway in the floor, unable to get himself back up, his face was panicked and laced with worry. When he saw his parents in the door, tears pooled in his eyes and he looked towards the floor.
"Please don't hurt me..." he whispered barely loud enough for them to hear.
The four words broke their hearts, knowing he was afraid of them, of what he thought they would do to him. It brought their world crumbling down and gave them a new perspective of everything.
"I am so sorry Danny, this is all my fault..." Jack said as he walked over to his son.
Jack wrapped his arms around his son and pulled him out of the floor, looking into his eyes, Jack saw fear, hope, love and sadness, but the fear was dominant. He embraced his son in a tight hug, his own tears spilling, apologizing for what had happened to his son and vowing to protect him.
"Glad your awake little brother." Jazz said and hugged him, smiling.
His mother gave him a bone crushing hug with teary eyes, promising to protect and always love him. Her fears of him never waking up or losing him vanishing at the moment he hugged her back. In a way, she was glad it was with them that the accident happened, at least now she can help him thru this.
"So who is up for waffles and pancakes this morning?"
A year had passed since the accident, but now it was time for Danny to reintegrate into society. His friends had kept in contact with him thanks to phone calls and texting, but they hadn't seen him. The Fentons' had built a training facility to help Danny master his powers aswell as training. The entire family had undergone rigorous training for the year, and by the end of the year, they went to the military to test their progress.
The Fenton's were graded at the top, with scores that beat most of the soldiers recruited for the special operations division. They were offered positions as trainers for the new recruits, but they declined saying they were scientist and had to get back to their work. The base then gave them a contract to build the training room, which they accepted and built withing two weeks.
Danny's powers had matured and developed during that year. He had gained complete control over the abilities he had, but was still working on his newer abilities. All of it to prepare him for the next day, his first day at school since the accident a year ago.
Sam walked towards her friends locker and leaned against it. "I haven't seen Danny all summer, his mom and dad kept telling me he was sick."
"Yah, it's weird. Jazz wouldn't even let me in the house when I went to see him. Do you think he'll be in school Sam?" Tucker asked.
"I hope so." she said forlornly.
Danny glared at his sister as they entered the schools doors, but she kept her smug smile on her face as she walked away. She and her mom and conned him into wearing something Sam and every other girl would approve of, the other reason was that he had no clothes except for his training clothes and lab coats. Her short and skinny brother wasn't so short and skinny anymore, along with the new clothes and his current mood, it was a totally new person.
She deliberately walked past Sam and Tucker who still looked the same they did the previous year, she slipped into the crowd and watched as her brother called put to them, and how they searched for him, his voice was deeper than the previous year, but still the same as it always was.
Sam heard his voice and turned to look for Danny, but he was nowhere in sight, however the new guy did catch her attention. He was built like a pro athlete, and walked with the precision and swiftness of a ninja. The black vest clung to him like a second skin, showing off his v-shaped build and large chest, while his mud-brown leather jacket showed off his broad shoulders. He wore jeans that fit snugly around his thighs, disappearing underneath his heavy combat boots, the clasps on their maximum setting to allow it to fit him. His sky blue eyes were directed at her and the shaggy but spiky hair hid a little of his flawless skin and eyes, the necklace around his neck brought her attention back to his chest.
"Sam, I missed you." he suddenly said when he stopped in front of her.
The whole hallway paused and went silent, shocked at the startling discovery. The new guy missed the goth girl? How did she know him? Where they dating? Who is he? Their question was answered by the next sentence she uttered. She realised he was a head taller than her, but the voice and the mischievous glint in his eye belonged to only one person, her best friend she had seen a year ago last.
"Danny?" she asked with disbelieve.
He grinned and pulled her up into a hug, causing her to blush when she made contact with his chest. Tucker was busy impersonating a fish on dry land perfectly. He didn't know how, but this was definitely his friend in front of him. The friend he had known since kindergarten and had disappeared for an entire year was back and looked like a soldier and a lot older. It didn't make sense to him, but he was glad Danny was back.
Paulina couldn't believe her eyes, the scrawny, pathetic looser had turned into this unbelievably handsome hunk? Most of the nerds were thinking that Danny had become some kind of super soldier, or had been experimented on and turned into a super soldier. Even teachers who knew Danny was stunned at his new appearance, they expected to see the same kid as last year, only a little taller, but this was definitely not what they were expecting.
"Hey Tuck, how's it been?" he asked as he put a blushing Sam down.
"What happened?" was the only thing that left Tuckers mouth.
Danny chuckled and shook his head with a smile on his face and casually replied "military school."
"WHAT?" shouted Sam and Tucker together.
"Come on, I'll fill you in later."
Danny's cheerful personality instantly changed into an icy cold one as he walked down the hallway, causing the crowds to part as the three walked down the hall. As soon as they disappeared from sight, whispers erupted among the students. Trading theories of what happened to Danny and how he became like that, the jocks deciding they would see how he changed during Gym, already knowing they were playing dodgeball and soccer.
Back in class Danny took a seat between Sam and Tucker and reclined in his chair, a small smirk on his face.
"Did your parents really send you to military school?" asked Sam
"No, there was an accident in the lab. We left for the year after that, Mom and Dad training me and Jazz while we traveled. We did visit a military base for a few weeks though, so I didn't really lie. Mom was homeschooling me at the time too." He said with a chuckle.
Sam and Tucker stared at him. "What is with the clothes then?" asked Tucker.
"Hmm? Oh you mean these? Well I only had training clothes and Lab coats thanks to my parents. I forgot to by myself new clothes, so Jazz and mom went. This is what I got stuck with."
Sam inwardly thanked Maddie and Jazz for the clothes. It suited him, now if only they could visit the pool. She blushed at her thoughts.
"Sam? Are you awake?" Danny asked.
"Huh? Sorry, I was thinking."
"About what?"
"The anti-whale poaching rally tomorrow." she lied smoothly.
"The one held near the carnival?"
"Yah, how did you know about it?" she asked, eyebrow raising.
He shrugged. "Saw a poster about it a few days ago."
She nodded accepting his answer, and noticed the rest of the class had filled while she was thinking and their conversation took place. Lancer was their teacher for English, History and French. So they would be stuck with him for quite a few lessons. As most of the people already knew, the lesson was boring. Danny having been tutored by Jazz and his mother already knew this years syllabus and was working on a few other things. Sam and Tucker poked him when the bell rang, he hardly noticed it.
"Huh?"
"Class is over Danny, it's lunch."
He looked at the time and realised that he had spent 3 hours working on his project, without noticing the periods changing. Then a thought struck him, how had he not noticed movement at the door when the teacher changed.
"How come I didn't notice Lancer leaving and another teacher entering?" he asked them.
"We had Lancer for English followed by Double French. He was sitting on his desk the entire lecture." Tucker informed him.
Lunch had just managed to enrage Sam, leading to Danny picking her up and bridal style and carrying her outside. The action caused her to blush and the other girls who were flirting with Danny to glare. Tucker had tried to get the girls as soon as Danny rejected them, earning a laugh from his friend. Afer the incident, the two guys spent the entire lunch period calming the angry goth.
"Three periods of gym, how wonderful." Tucker groaned.
"What's wrong with gym? Except for the fact that you hate excercise more han you hate veggies?" Danny asked with a smirk.
Tucker glared and Sam laughed at him. "Veggies help you balance your energy, if you ate some gym would be easy." she said
Danny rolled his eyes, and went into the lockers, changing into shorts and a white shirt. Tucker followed him out when he finished changing. When he saw how Danny was built, he took a step away from him. Danny frowned at his friends behaviour.
"What's wrong Tuck?"
"I am saving my dignity. If I stand next to you, my chances with the ladies are going to hit rock bottom." Tucker said wagging his finger as if it was a perfectly logical explanation.
Danny just stared at him. "..."
"What?!" Tucker exclaimed.
Just then Sam joined them. Tucker decided to drop the subject, seeing as Sam would probably make fun of him. Minutes passed as they waited for the rest of the class to arrive and for the coach. The students were in their little cliques, jocks, nerds, A-list-girls, geeks and emo's waiting for the teacher.
"Listen up, today we are playing dodgeball for first, followed by soccer. John, Dash pick your teams."
Danny and Sam ended up on the athletic team while Tucker was on the other team. When the game started, the nerds were picked off first followed by the geeks. Tucker managed to stay till after the last geek was picked off, when he was hit by a ball from Dash. Basketballs flew at Danny, but he just knocked them away with the balls he caught. The balls he didn't knock away, he dodged with the barest of margins, showing just how well trained he was. By the end it was Sam, Danny and Kwan on their team and John and some other guy on the other team.
"Okay, you five get A's for the first practical of the semester." the coach said. "Now, boys on one side, girls on the other. Split yourselves into two teams, the guys will be shirts vs skins. Girls will be reds VS whites."
Tucker and Danny got on the skins team, much to Tuckers dismay. Danny chuckled at Tucker, but was just as reluctant to remove his shirt.
"What's the matter? military school leave scars?" the jocks teased.
Danny growled and and removed his shirt, revealing perfectly toned muscle and flawless skin. On his back was a triquera with four symbols in it, standing for Earth, Heaven, Hell and Eternity. A few nerds knew what it meant and Sam as well, but everyone was stunned. In a single year, the looser had changed so much, they didn't recognize him, but now with the tatoo, they were certain it is somebody else.
"Happy now?" he growled out.
"Damn Danny, a tatoo?"
Danny chuckled and nodded. "Well, if we hang out after school, I'll tell you all about it."
"Sure."
Soccer was just like dodgeball, Danny showcasing his amazing skill and speed. Leaving the others in the dust, it amazed the coach to see somebody play with the amount of skill he has and the endurance he had. At the end, Danny passed the ball to Tucker telling him to shoot, and he did. The ball was going to miss, or so it seemed, when its path curved into the corner and flew into the net.
"Yes!" Tucker shouted, high-fiving Danny. "Did you see that? I thought it was going to miss when suddenly it curved and flew into the net! It was like one of those David Beckham shots!"
Danny grinned. "I know, but you do realise the latest craze is Messi right?"
Tucker pouted. "You just ruined the moment..."
Danny laughed as they walked back to the lockers, showering and changing back into their normal clothes. Sam joined them after she was done in the locker room, glad to be able to join Danny for a meal after school. Well, they would have, had Jazz not run up to them.
"Danny, Black is back, White is away." she said and grabbed his arm.
As they were running, a black Hummer H1 raced in the parking and slowed near them and they jumped in, before it raved away again. The entire scene stunned Sam and Tucker.
"Did that just happen?" Tucker asked dazed.
"Yah, and I am going to find out what happened." she said as she got on her scooter racing in the general direction the Hummer drove in.
The four were racing thru the streets, towards a large restaurant in the heart of Amity Park. Jack was driving, but unlike the previous times, he had actually learned how to really drive. He had taken advanced driving and passed it. So the drive was calm, but fast.
"What's happening?" Danny asked.
"Ghost attack, Level 2, telekinesis, Box Ghost." Maddie said.
Danny nodded, and let the familiar electric yet cool sensation envelope his body and change him into Phantom. Invisibly he flew out of the car towards the scene looking for the ghost. When he saw a fat blue ghost in overalls flinging boxes at people, he turned visible and flew down at him. Thermos in hand he used his telekinetic abilities to freeze the ghost in the middle of his actions, and suck him up in the thermos.
Sam arrived just as a mysterious ghost captured another one in a thermos, the ghost then flew away. As she got off of her scooter, she noticed the black H1 parked nearby. Danny, Jazz, Jack and Maddie walking with guns in their hands. She hid near them listening to what they were saying.
"The other one got away, he was more powerful."Jazz said.
"What class was it?" Asked Danny.
"Class 5, we think the Box Ghost followed it here."
"actually, I saw it open a portal. I think it was running from him."
They chuckled. "If he ran away from this one, then it was probably a nuisance." Maddy said.
All of them, except Danny left, he just stood there and waved at them.
"You could have said goodbye Sam." Danny said amusedly
"Wh-wha-how?" she spluttered.
He smiled. "I heard you on your scooter."
She nodded and walked to him. It was strange having seen him hold a gun like that, and now seeing him so casually without one. She guessed his parents trained him and that him and Jazz had decided to join their parents in hunting ghosts. She always thought that he would never join, but she guessed she was mistaken.
There is that. I need to stop writing Different stories and focus on completing one thing. Anybody got Ideas how to do that?
