As promised, here is the sequel to the story, What He'd Do For You. This is just an introductory chapter designed to explain some things that have changed in the past years. I sincerely hope you enjoy it as much as you did in the first one. ...I'm still tweaking the storyline, hoping that it will be as good as WHDFU.
Disclaimer: I don't own Danny Phantom or any of its characters. I do own one of the characters in the chapter. So bug off.
Tucker Foley sat at his work desk, trying to fix a customer's computer. It was the last one before his lunch break that started at noon, which was fifteen minutes away. It looked like the computer had undergone more than the average human could bear. Tucker could've sworn he saw dirt, mustard, oil, nail polish, and just about everything he could imagine stuck or dried to the sides of the motherboard.
Sweet relief came as the phone next to him rang. "Hello, you've reached Foley's Technical Fix-ups. This is Tucker speaking, how can I-"
Danny's voice cut the man off before he could finish the habitual greeting. "Tucker! I need your help!"
Tucker immediately sprung to attention. "What's going on Danny?"
His friend's voice crackled, revealing Danny was using his cell phone. "I need you to step outside. Skulker's on my tail, and at this moment, I can't really do anything to shake him."
"Danny, do you have-"
"Yes, right here in my arms. Please get out here now!"
"I'll be outside my office in a moment," Tucker immediately slammed the phone back on his desk and then rushed out of his office. He scurried out the door to his building and immediately spotted his friend crashing down, a trail of smoke behind him. Right before the halfa hit the ground, he tossed Tucker a small bundle. Luckily, the techno-geek had successfully worked on his reflexes and caught it with grace.
Danny, on the other hand, didn't land in Tuckers arms, but straight on a fire hydrant. Reluctantly he sat up and rubbed his head. "I did NOT need this today."
Tucker glared at his best friend. "Dude, I ought to bust you for child endangerment."
"Bill me later," Danny replied, looking to the sky and meeting Skulkers glare. "Right now, I'm going to send this guy back to the ghost zone."
Danny burst into the air to meet Skulker, and Tucker shook his head. Alot had changed since the last time he had told Danny about child endangerment. First off, 10 years had passed and they had almost grown up. ...almost. They were still the best of friends and hung out often. Tucker and Danny seemed much like the same teenagers they had been in some old photographs, minus physical changes. Danny had sprouted up to 6 foot, and had a small gotee. Tucker had decided to start wearing contacts, and had grown about an inch shorter than his friend.
Secondly, Danny was married. To Sam. Big shock, huh? Tucker often remarked about how he should collect on some old bets he had made before Sam and Danny started dating. And just as often, Danny and Sam would find some way to torment him to the point where he cut the jokes.
Thirdly, everyone had a job. Tucker worked at his electronics store, which fit him perfectly. Danny worked part-time at the planetarium at the edge of Amity Park, and part-time with Tucker. Sam was an activist who had quickly become one of the more popular people in Amity Park, and was about to release a book about the enviornment.
The most suprising change Tucker held carefully in his arms. Extremely worried, he gently peeled back the tiny layers of a blue blanket.
The tech sighed as two light blue orbs lit up in the face of Danny and Sam's first son, Daemyn. The child had a tuff of black hair on his small head, and a perfect nose. In the opinion of everyone who saw the child, he seemed to look more like his father. One of the few resemblences of his mother was a small DP logo above his heart.
"Thank goodness you're alright, Dae-my-boy!" Tucker smiled. "Silly Da-da, taking you mid-air. He knows ghosts can attack at anytime."
The child of six months just stared at Tucker and gave his "Uncle" Tucker a goofy grin.
Tucker looked up just in time to see Danny finish sucking Skulker into the Fenton Thermos. Wiping off sweat from his brow, he floated back down to Tucker, and after making sure that no one was watching, transformed into Danny Fenton. "Thanks Tucker."
"What was the rush Danny? You seemed overly panicked." Tucker handed Daemyn back to his father.
"My kid and I were being hunted by the guy who wants my pelt on his wall. Why do you think I was panicking?" Danny glanced at his black watch. "Oh man, Sam is going to KILL me!"
Tucker gave a smug look, "Late for something...something important?"
Danny immediately changed back into Phantom and began to take to the skies. "I forgot Daemyn is having his baby pictures taken today! Bye Tucker! See you for dinner tonight!"
Tucker grinned as his friend raced off to his late appointment. Knowing Sam, she was probably already there, trying to assure the photographer that the child would be there momentarily. After the pictures, they would go home, freshen up, and then meet Tucker for dinner. Tucker was curious about going, because Sam had hinted that there would be someone there she wanted him to meet. He bet that it was a girl. Sam had been trying to hook him up for the past five years. He had probably met over fifty different girls, all supposedly "his type." Ha. He wondered if he even HAD a type.
Maybe he'd find out tonight.
Maybe she was cute.
And like berets...
Yeah, tonight.