Phantom 1
Danny Phantom
And the
Wrong side of the law
By: David Carter
CH.1: To tell the truth
Danny Fenton had never expected that in his 14 years of living he'd find himself sitting in the back of a police car. Sure he had made a few mistakes, but never one that could send him to jail. As he sat there handcuffed in the back of the police vehicle he couldn't bring himself to look out the window at his friends…nor the face of Dash, his High School bully. I'm half ghost, he thought with relief, I'll just slip out of these cuffs…but then they'd think I'd escape…great thinking Fenton. If this got on his record…how would he be able to walk through Casper High School's hallway without injuring his already ruined reputation? I'm 14, which if it still counts means I am a minor, and besides it wasn't that horrible of a crime in the first place…
Danny was sitting at the Fenton family table enjoying his usual bowl of cereal when his older sister Jazz came in. She had long red hair trailing down her back and today wore a casual black shirt and blue jeans. She was the only one in his ghost obsessed family that knew that he was the ghost boy/ hero Danny Phantom. Jazz gave him her usual smile, the one that said I know your secret, before pouring herself a nutritious bowl of cereal. "So do you have any thing special planned tonight Danny?" Jazz spooned her cereal into her mouth and chewed on her nutritious meal waiting for an answer.
"As a matter of fact me and Tucker were going to a baseball game," he replied after slurping up the remains of his breakfast. Danny Fenton had black hair that did a swoop up; he wore a white shirt and blue jeans (his usual dressing through his school years). His dad Jack was a scientist who was obsessed over ghosts and a while back built a ghost portal with his mom Maddie. It failed and they gave up, then he went in and zap, that was when he realized he was the exact spitting image of a ghost. Danny picked up his backpack and as he dashed out the door he saw a blue wisp escape his mouth. Looking around he found a tree nearby and dashed behind it. "I'm going ghost," he said and a white circle appeared at his midsection and going up and down clothing him in black and his hair turned jet white and his blue eyes turned bright green.
"Ah so the ghost boy is going to school, well it's time you were late anyway," Skulker said zooming towards Danny with his two rockets screaming. Danny jumped into the air and his feet vanished along with his legs to create a ghost tail. The two collided in midair and Skulker won sending Danny spinning to the ground. Skulker was Danny's biggest nuance (probably because he was more persistent on the catch then the other ghosts were). "Your school confuses me, why go get an education when you can rule the world and have a job that never gets dull or-."
"Enough talk Skulker, its bad enough you talk nonsense, it is even worse when you know that if you had an education you could talk down Plasmius himself." Danny got up and with his arm extended out he focused his aim on the fast descending figure of Skulker and then a bright green beam of ectoplasmic energy escaped his palm. The beam hit Skulker dead on and sent the machine to a crash landing in a tree. Danny turned back into his human self just as Tucker Foley and Sam Manson (his two best friends) rounded the corner looking relieved to see their half ghost friend. "Hey guys!"
"Hey Danny, is that Skulker?" Tucker asked pointing at the figure struggling to free itself from the Fenton tree. Danny gave a nod and led the way to school. Tucker was his best friend and his interests consisted of games…but mostly state of the art hand held computers. Tucker wore a yellow shirt and suspenders that went to his shorts. Sam Manson was Danny and Tucker's best friend who was a Goth and against meat products. Sam wore a short black shirt with miniature skulls over it and a black skirt with blue lines. "Danny aren't you thrilled about the baseball game today?"
"Yeah and I hear this year the Amity park team will go to the championships," he said while walking across Casper High's wet grass. The team they had really had the longest losing streak in history, but both boys (along with a desperate town) never gave up hope of a championship. Danny opened his eyes and realized too late that he had crossed into the popular part of the grass. Dash got up from the bench and walked towards him with a smug look on his face.
"Well look who wondered into the wrong part of the School, it's the Fenton geek squad in for their usual treatment. Guys let's give them their treatment now." Danny was lifted off his feet and was hung from the tree branch by his backpack. The bell rang and Dash and his pals left him up in the tree. Sam and Tucker shrugged their shoulders and pulled their friend down (both knew a tardy was coming their way, but to leave their friend up there to be humiliated was just wrong).
"Boy I'm glad it wasn't the locker," Tucker said as he walked into Casper High's empty halls. Danny wasn't listening as he carried his broken backpack in. the strap had snapped, which meant he had to endure a whole school day of carrying his own backpack. Mr. Lancer (their forgiving teacher) gave them tardies and across the room Dash snickered to the annoyance of Danny. "Hey man just cool it, Dash is a jerk, it's not like he'll change anytime-."
"Mr. Foley care to tell the class how the Dinosaurs met their doom?" Tucker looked up from his little computer and gave Mr. Lancer a weak grin. Mr. Lancer rolled his eyes at the student who could get an A in comp applications, but when it came to his class a simple C.
"Well…a meteorite of some magnitude crushed the Dinosaurs, even burying some of them overtime becoming fossils. Then a long time later archeologists are bored and decide to dig up the past, is that my answer Mr. Lancer?" The class was stunned, Mr. Lancer a bit proud and annoyed at the same time, and Danny and Sam happy.
"Mr. Foley…nice job…I couldn't have said it better myself," Mr. Lancer said. Dash from where he sat glared at Tucker and Paullina herself gave him an icy glare. Tucker for once didn't care as he realized he had read the material about extinction and answered Mr. Lancer's very random question without stammering. The bell rang and as Tucker made his exit from English class he felt the iron grip of Dash on his shoulder blade and knew his doomed fate. As he sat in the locker he contemplated whether he should've remained stumped or taken the risk even though Dash was in English. Tucker sighed and decided to wait for his friends.
"Hey Tucker, where are you?" Danny stood in the hallway with Sam and both looked worried when their friend hadn't replied. Then a tiny knock came from a nearby locker, upon further inspection they saw the outline of Tucker's backpack. Sam managed to open the locker after 3 tries of the lock and once Tucker folded out they went to their following classes. Danny had science and found himself bored out of his mind when his teacher talked about plants and chromosomes. After many more hours of boring material he made it to lunch where he, Sam, and Tucker traded stories as they usually did. "Boy I'm so glad the day is almost over," Danny said to his friends who both gave him the same look.
"Yeah and that baseball game will help me work off this algebra pain in my head," Tucker commented about their schedule. Danny was about to kick back when the familiar blue wisp escaped his breath. Tucker spotted Skulker first and dove under the table to avoid his head being blown off. Danny ran to the nearest and most secluded place in the school (the bathroom) and transformed into his alter ego Danny Phantom. Skulker fired off two missiles at two teenagers and Danny blew them away by firing two ectoplasmic blasts at them detonating them half way. "Way to go-."
"I'm not finished yet human," Skulker roared at Tucker, "perhaps you'll sing a different note if I do this!" Skulker was now glowing a grayish green and when he spread his arms out two gold beams soared out enveloping the young hero in a well conceived trap. "This is a gift from Plasmius himself; apparently I take your screaming as appreciation. The beam has a lasting effect for 24 hours, and there is no cure…that's the good news. The bad is that it can't kill you. What does it do you ask, well try going ghost anytime a person screams and you'll see."
"I should've known Plasmius was behind this," Danny said through shut teeth. "So are you going to reveal my identity to these humans and hope I'm postured around town as a menace?" Danny for once realized this plan wasn't about his identity, so what could it be? Before he could even think of an answer he was thrown out the cafeteria window and into the open dumpster outside.
"Danny are you ok?" Sam stood by the trash and out popped a rat which made her scream. After many minutes of waiting Sam was about to leave when Danny's head popped up covered in waste. Sam got Tucker and together they pulled their ghost friend out of his misery. Danny chose this time to transform back into his human self and as he sat against the dumpster he couldn't have been more confused. "Danny, what is Plasmius up to? I mean this isn't like him to leave you clueless-."
"Yeah…but to tell the truth I kind of already figured out his motive," he said scratching the back of his head, "Plasmius has been, for sometime, trying to get rid of my father so he could win my mom. We know each other's secret, so that'd be blackmail on both counts. So we could count my identity crisis out of the ball park. If I try to go ghost when a person needs me, then I'm either stuck as Danny Fenton…or worse a terrible ghost bent on wreaking havoc throughout Amity-."
"Danny isn't that a little heavy?" Danny gave his friend a sunken smile then stared at his shoes. "Look if you're so worried why not pay a visit to Plasmius himself, that way you'll know ahead whether-."
"Hey Tuck, that's not a bad idea," Danny said rising to his feet and heading back inside just as the bell rang. "First thing after dinner I'll go ghost and pay Plasmius a little visit then-."
"Mr. Fenton I believe you're tardy," Mr. Lancer said. Danny and his friends stood in an empty cafeteria and their expressions didn't change as Lancer assigned them detention. "Just be glad I'm going easy on you today, imagine what I'd do if Vlad Masters, the rich billionaire weren't paying us a visit." Danny sulked the rest of the day and Tucker and Sam as his best friends failed to get him out of the dumps. Danny almost fell asleep in7th and after detention in Lancer's he sulked home. His parents both gave each other concerned looks and Jazz herself was starting to believe Danny might be sick. Yet if they only knew his plans…
"This gold light is making me sick, better find Vlad fast or I may go ghost and…then what?" Transforming into his white haired green eyed alter ego he phased out the window and flew over Amity parks to find Vladd and get to the bottom of his new scheme.