Umm... Hi? Yeah... I know... new story.. and I haven't finished WfG yet... you can throw tomatoes at me. This, I hope, won't be a long fic, 8 chapters max. Anyways... for those of you who read "new Story Idea" know about the new story idea and thanks to pearl84, I know have a title and am starting to post it. This fic will be dark so be warned. Anyways.. here are some warnings...

WARNING: This fic will have spoilers of season 3 episodes, from Efae all the way to UJ. There won't be too much from others, but a lot from Urban Jungle, which has aired in the States adn almost everywhere now. So read by your own risk.

DISCLAIMER: ME OWN NOT DANNY PHANTOM. Or... I don't own Danny Phantom, his wonderful creator Butch Hartman does and also Nick. If Me and my muse owned it... trust me... you'd know.

Anyways... onto chapter 1

Chapter 1

"Finally, some peace and quiet!" Tucker exclaimed as he jumped onto Danny's bed, closely followed by Sam and Danny. The two shook their heads as Tucker started to cuddle a pillow happily.

"Ok… how is it that Danny has the ghost powers, I'm a goth and you're the freaky and scary one?" Sam asked her other best friend. Danny laughed, before returning to his somber mood. Noticing this, Sam gave him a comforting smile. "Danny, relax. Aren't you supposed to be the one happy that there are no ghost attacks?"

Danny grimaced. "Of course I am, but as soon as I start enjoying it," he started, but was cut off by a blue mist escaped his mouth. He sighed. "That would happen," Danny said pointing to the remnants of the mist. Tucker groaned.

"Come on! Can't the ghosts give you ONE day of relaxation?" he asked Danny as he changed into his ghost form.

"Why don't you try telling them that Tucker," Danny suggested as he prepared to take off. Seeing his friends just sitting and watching him, he asked, "Aren't you coming?" They gave him dry smiles.

"We'd thought you never ask," they replied as they ran to get weapons.

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"Whoa," Sam whispered in astonishment. The middle of the town was left in rubble, with people fleeing all over the place. She, Tucker and Danny had just arrived, and couldn't believe the damage that one ghost was causing.

Almost instantly, Danny snapped out of his disbelief and took charge. "Ok, we need to wrap this up fast. Tucker, Sam, just try to get as much people out of here as you can. I'll deal with the ghost."

With discreet nods, both friends took off to perform their tasks, while Danny prepared for a difficult fight…. If he only knew what was in store for him.

Danny flew towards the ghost. It was covered by a dark cloak, something shining underneath. It's cold dead eyes were an uncommon shade of red that pierced through Danny's skin, making him feel empty inside.

Ok, this will be harder than it looks Danny thought, shivering. He quickly recovered and aimed an ecto-blast towards the ghost, taking him out of the air.

"Hey, James Bond, come to put an end to your spy career?" Danny jeered. The ghost narrowed its eyes and returned the blast, stronger than the first. Danny yelped in pain as he skidded across the sidewalk.

"Enough with the witty banter halfa, let's just finish this," the ghost snarled, releasing another blast.

Thinking quickly, Danny darted out of the way, but the blast grazed his shoulder. He hissed in pain as he grabbed it. He felt the ectoplasm starting to ooze. Right away Danny knew this wasn't a ghost to mess around with; he meant business.

Leaping into the air, Danny charged at the ghost, which simply grabbed his arm and twisted it fiercely. Danny screamed, knowing his arm shouldn't bend the way it was right now. Summoning some energy in his hand, Danny blasted the ghost away. He dropped Danny onto the ground as the ghost boy clutched his injured arm.

That was way to close for comfort Danny thought as he cradled his arm near his chest. He looked towards the new ghost, who was coming at him once again. "Who… who are you?" Danny asked, his hand lighting green as the ghost made his way towards him.

"I've been called many things, but to my employers, I am simply known as the Punisher," the ghost replied, sending a blast at Danny's chest. He screamed in agony as he felt the heat of the blast burn into his skin, the ectoplasm slowly flowing out. "Pity," the Punisher continued, "I'd thought you'd be much more of a challenge, since my employer has employed me to…. Eliminate his problem."

Danny closed his eyes and focused some energy to surge through him. In one unfocused moment, the energy came bursting outwards, sending Punisher thrown back towards a wall.

Weakly, Danny stood up and smiled. "Cool!" he explained. He then muttered, "Now, how in the world did I do that?" Lonely clapping broke through his thoughts as Danny's direction turned back to the ghost.

"Interesting," Punisher commented, pulling back his cloak. "You have more to you that meets the eye." Punisher pulled back his cloak even further to reveal a machine like canon that had a dark tube flowing up to his chest. Danny widened his eyes at the machine. "But unfortunately for you," Punisher continued, as he listened to the hum of the machine, "So do I."

In a spilt second, the canon unleashed a wave of spectral energy, hitting Danny squarely in the chest. Pain like he had never felt before surged through him, opening bruises and letting ectoplasm fall from them. Danny screamed in pain, not knowing what else to do.

Suddenly, the pain stopped as Danny was pushed across the pavement again. This is going to be a lot harder than I thought Danny told himself painfully, as he got up to battle again.

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"There, that's all of them," Tucker said, pointing to a group of teens running farther away from the battle area. He turned back to Sam. "How do you think Danny's doing?" he asked her.

From out of nowhere, a scream echoed as a black and white blur was thrown into a nearby building. They looked to see their friend painfully trying to stand, but failing miserably.

"Survey says… not well," Sam answered as she and Tucker ran to help their friend.

Danny saw his friends coming towards him, with the Punisher coming behind them. "Guys, get out of here," he called out weakly. They stopped and looked at Danny oddly, before noticing the ghost coming straight for him. Without hesitation, Danny pushed himself into the air and sent a round of ecto-blasts at the ghost, trying to push him back. However, the blasts didn't seem to faze Punisher much; he kept coming.

Think Fenton think Danny told himself, trying to think of a plan. He didn't notice that his foe had stopped. There has to be something you could do to stop this guy. Punisher charged another ray, but Danny was to focused in his thoughts to notice; he hovered in the same spot.

"Danny! Look out!" Sam and Tucker screamed, getting Danny to break out of his thoughts. They were a bit too late though.

As Danny prepared to dart out of the way, Punisher released another blast from his canon. Once again, Danny felt the unbearable pain of the spectral waves. This time however, he felt that it was ripping him apart slowly. Danny felt the waves surge through him, painfully taking energy from his form. Screaming was the only he could do, wait for the pain and scream.

His now limp body fell towards to the ground again. He pushed himself up onto his hands and knees and gasped for air while Punisher stood tall over him.

"And you're supposed to be a protector?" he taunted. "Please, your as much as a challenge as a fly on the wall." Danny stiffened at the words. "And look," he continued, "Your little fan club is coming to help you. Maybe then you'd have a reason to fight."

"Stay away from them," Danny said venomously, pushing himself from the ground.

"That struck a nerve didn't it Phantom," Punisher continued, "It's quite a shame really, they don't need to be hurt, but if you insist."

Without warning, a huge blast erupted from Danny's outstretched hand, sending Punisher flying right by his friends.

"Sam, Tucker get out of here now!" Danny yelled, as he kicked off the ground and sped towards Punisher, who was taking flight as well. The two ghosts attacked fiercely, with neither side clearly showing the winner.

Contrary to his words, Sam and Tucker stood in their spot, transfixed at the fight overhead. They knew Danny was getting weaker, and they didn't know how long he would last.

"Sam, maybe it is a good idea to get out of here," Tucker suggested, only to get an angry scowl in return, "What I mean is that we can go get some help, Danny can't handle that ghost on his own and you know it."

Sam sighed; Tucker had a point. "Fine."

As they turned to go, a RV sped across the road, weapons failing about. Sam and Tucker looked at each other and groaned; now was not a good time for Danny's parents to show up. They looked up at Danny again; he seemed not to have noticed his parents' timely arrival.

"Danny really can't do this on his own now," Sam said as she followed the RV, Tucker close behind her.

The vehicle came to a sudden stop and out jumped two people: One a large man with an orange hazmat suit, while the other was a woman with a large weapon in her hand and wearing a blue hazmat suit.

"Maddie, hurry up, I want to rid the town from the ecto-manifestations already," the man whined.

"Jack be patient, I need to set up the ectoneutronolization blaster before we do anything," Maddie told her husband.

Sam and Tucker, who had just arrived to hear the name of the weapon, gasped. "the ecto neutrolwhatitsface?"

"The ectoneutronolization blaster," Maddie explained, "It drains a ghost of all the power it uses for it to fight and make their form weak enough to rip apart. Now all I have to do is put in the power source and lock onto one of those ghosts' ecto signature and we'll be in business."

Sam and Tucker gaped at her. They then turned up to the sky; it didn't take too much thought to think of who was first. They heard a beeping and the triumphant cries of the ghost fighting couple, which signalled the device was ready. They then heard a mechanical voice then said "ectosignanture confirmed; target locked."

"Say goodbye, ghost boy," Jack said, as he watched his wife launch the attack.

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"Well, looks like you've done all you can Phantom," Punisher said, sending a blow to Danny's head. The ghost boy cried weakly in pain as he descended a couple feet. "Now it's time to finish this." Punisher brought his canon to Danny's chest and fired a powerful blast from it, just as a green blast came from behind Phantom. Both blasts hit their target at the same time, and like before, Danny felt as if he was being ripped apart and drained of all energy; he screamed out in agony.

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"DANNY!" Sam and Tucker screamed as they watched the blasts hit their target at the same time. They were shell-shocked; this couldn't be the end for their friend, he was much stronger than that.

"Ha-ha! Take that ghost!" Jack exclaimed as he watched Phantom fall to the ground, creating a huge crater as he did so. The other ghost was taken aback at first, before calmly floating to the ground with an evil grin on his face.

"Well, it looks like the hunters finished my job for me," Punisher's voice called out, as he kicked Danny's limp body further away.

"Leave him alone!" Tucker yelled out while trying to hold Sam up; she couldn't believe what just happened. Punisher directed his attention to the pair, along with Maddie and Jack.

"So you think he didn't deserve to be punished do you? Tell me boy, what has he done for this town?" Punisher asked him sceptically.

"Loads of stuff," Tucker said confidently. "He's saved this town more than any of you can count, and-"

Punished snorted. "With the power that excuse for a ghost had, it's a wonder he saved anything."

"Shut up," Sam said coldly, finally finding her voice. "He's more powerful than you think."

Punisher turned his head towards her. "Really now? Too bad it's too late for him to unleash any of that power anymore."

What little colour that was left in Sam and Tucker's faces drained.

"He can't be," Sam whispered. She knew he was lying.

"You think I'm lying do you?" he asked, judging the look on her face. "Those combined attacks hit hard; one is bad enough. If your hero isn't gone yet, he will soon."

Suddenly a blast hit him from the side of his head. Everyone wheeled around to see a pale Danny Phantom, clutching his chest and breathing quite hard.

"Danny!" Sam and Tucker cried in relief. Punisher scowled.

"Looks like I still have a job to do," he said with distaste. He then turned Sam, Tucker, Maddie and Jack with a smile. "But first," he said, raising the canon towards them.

"Leave them alone," Danny told him angrily. His narrow eyes were glaring at Punisher as if he was going to turn him into dust.

"What connection should you possibly have with those two," he said nodding to Jack and Maddie, who were looking at both ghosts with disgust.

"Take another step further and I'll blast you into smithereens," Danny told Punisher with such hatred Sam and Tucker never heard him voice before.

"What makes you-" Punisher started, only to be thrown farther away by a powerful ghost ray.

Danny flew over to the others, slowly but as if nothing had happened, and stood in front of them protectively. "Are you guys ok?" he asked them concerned. Jack and Maddie gaped at him; was a ghost asking them if they were alright?

"We're fine, but what about you?" Sam said hurriedly. Phantom shrugged.

"I've been better," he said, and Sam couldn't help but notice the large bruised leaking ectoplasm from his stomach; she gasped.

"So you can protect the people in this city," Punisher said menacingly. Danny turned back to the ghost; the ghost hunters were surprised at how fast his expressions changed, he was almost human. "Fine, but be warned that this shall be their downfall as well as yours." Punisher lifted his canon towards the group and charged it again. The humans gasped but he ghost boy held his ground. As the attack came closer and closer, he put up a strong shield and focused on blocking the attack.

The blast was one of the most powerful Punisher had released that day. It was straining on the shield; Danny didn't know how long he could keep it up. He focused all the energy he had and re-directed it to the shield, pushing against the blast.

"You shall not win Danny Phantom!" Punisher yelled in triumph. "Give up!"

"I-will-never-give-UP!" Danny yelled, sending energy towards his foe. As he said each word, a light started to shine from his core, growing brighter and brighter before engulfing everything around him. A small explosion occurred, sending everything thrown 50 feet away.

As Punisher stood up… he saw another huge crater… and the ghost boy and humans were nowhere to be seen.

So that's Chapter 1. Hoped you like it... if you did (or want to tell me something) please review.