Danny Phantom in: Spectre Rejecters

Danny walked gloomily out of school after being kept behind for another detention. He had yet again failed a maths test, an easy one at that. The sky was dark and cloudy and the school was like a ghost town, not a soul in sight. He trudged down the street heading home, knowing that he would receive yet another lecture from his parents about how important his education was. He clutched his head; it was still aching from the unsuccessful attempt to banish Skulker back to the ghost zone. With all his new upgrades, special weapons and a security system that Tucker -one of Danny's only two real friends- couldn't hack into –the young hybrid could barely put up a fight.

The gloomy boy finally arrived home, he approached the door and heard his father, Jack, yell "IT'S FINISHED!" He sighed and walked through the door, heading for the stairs to his room. "Hold on Danny!" yelled Jack. "This is the new Fenton... fentonnn... something or other..."

"Fenton restrictor, dear" Maddie, Danny's mother, corrected.

"It finds the nearest ghost, and traps them in an anti-ghost net, then ZAPS 'EM!" Continued Jack excitedly, "Lets test it!"

Before his wife had chance to react, Jack pressed the button and all of a sudden a glowing green net appeared from the strange device and caged Danny, sending some sort of electric volts through his body. He panicked, how could he get out of this? He didn't have time to think the situation through;

He created two ghostly energy balls with his hands, and blasted the net trapping him away. He kneeled on the floor, he could barely stand. He looked up and saw Jack and Maddie's shocked faces. Danny hung his head in shame... How could they ever love him as their son again; after all, they hunted and hated ghosts with a passion. He managed to summon enough strength to transform into his alter-ego: Danny Phantom, and phased through the floor to the lab, entering the ghost portal as fast as he could, Despite the fact that he had nowhere to go. His parents followed him as fast as they could, using the stairs of course, and stared in horror as they saw the open ghost portal swirling away. Jack put a comforting arm around a distraught Maddie, telling her that everything would work out. He knew however, that it wouldn't.

The clock struck midnight and their son still hadn't returned. His parents struggled to come to terms with the fact that all this time their son had been none other than the ghost boy they had hunted for so long. Jazz already knew due to the un-timely incident when she saw him transform during Casper High 'spirit week', but decided to act surprised to make things easier. Maddie frantically called Sam, Tucker and anyone else she could think of. Unfortunately, none of them had heard anything. She reached for the phone again, "There's only one more place I can think of where Danny might be..."

She dialled the number and awaited an answer. Finally, he picked up.

"Vlad Masters speaking"

"Hello... Vlad?"

"Aaah Maddie, what can I do for you?"

"It's Danny, there was an…" Maddie paused, unsure of what to say. After all, if she told Vlad the truth then he'd most likely think she had lost her mind, right? "…incident. He's been gone almost all night and none of his friends have heard from him; I just wondered if you had seen him..."

Vlad thought for a moment, if he could find Daniel, there would be so much he could achieve.

"I'm afraid not," Vlad replied "I'll let you know if I see him though, Bye!" He placed the phone down with a mischievous grin spread across his face.

Vlad had a plan; he still had the "BOOmerang" from the time when he attempted to clone Danny but his idiotic friends had intervened. The unusual creation was still keyed in to Danny's ectoplasmic signature, which meant he could easily find him. He threw the gadget, and followed it as it glided through the portal into the ghost zone.

Danny flew around the seemably never-ending realm for a while, but found himself completely exhausted. It appeared that his parent's ridiculous invention had taken its toll. He eventually realised that he could no longer go on, and desperately looked around for somewhere to rest when his eyes fell upon what appeared to be an old stone bench. Hell, it was better than the ground. Gently floating down, he returned to his dark haired human self and sat uncomfortably on the bench, burying his head in his arms. Thoughts of the night's events spun round his head like a record player on repeat. Despite being cold, upset and lonely, he drifted off into a deep sleep.

Vlad followed the BOOmerang through the ghost zone and it wasn't long before he found Danny. He landed by the bench and looked down at the boy with a sympathetic yet worried expression on his face. He shook Danny's arm to wake him up, but the only reaction he received was the boy's ghost sense going off, accompanied by a shiver. Vlad sighed, and gently lifted him up. After carefully laying him in the guest bedroom, Vlad put a thick sheet over Danny's cold body in an attempt to warm him up a little and ordered his servants, the ghost vulture's not to let him out of their sight and to inform him as soon as the boy awoke. His plans were at the back of his mind; the only thing Vlad really cared about was that his lonely little badger would be alright.