Hello everyone and welcome to the re-done, or directors cut, or re-imagining of "Battle on Both Fronts." I hope to attract new people as well as please the old with my extended and renewed version of my story which, do to my own laziness and overall incompetence as a writer, wasn't all it could be. So I hope that you enjoy and have a good time reading.
Disclaimer: I don't own Danny Phantom, characters, places, locations or names. Although it would be sweet if I did.
Chapter One
"This Will Not End Well."
The doors of Casper High blew open as if from an explosion as teenagers' and teachers alike all came flying out in a massive stampede screaming and yelling. School was finally over and that meant that it was time to have fun. Danny, Sam and Tucker came out behind the crowd, stopping for a moment to take in the wonderful sight of the open town, their playground for the next three months.
"Well, shall we ditch this godforsaken place for a summer of slacking, laziness and three wonderful months of getting nothing done whatsoever? Tucker asked.
"I couldn't have said it better my self." Sam responded.
"So what's the plan?" Danny asked his friends "My place after dinner, movies all night, sleep most of the day away then repeat?"
"Sounds like paradise" Tucker said. "Six thirty?"
"Sounds good." Danny and Sam replied in unison.
The three friends when their separate ways at the corner each going home with thoughts of their own ideal summer plans. Danny's mind was blissfully miles away with thoughts of spending hours on end with his friends, with no responsibilities other than the occasional ghost battle, when he started to approach his own house however, those pleasant thoughts went sour very quickly. The sounds of power tools, construction equipment, and yelling of thumbs caught under hammers were very apparent as Danny arrived at his home, and knew his parents were inventing a new gadget that could kill ghosts, and their own son with out them realizing it.
Coming to the front door Danny slowly turned the knob and slid open the door tiptoeing his way inside doing his best to make a noise. Sadly for him, all his efforts were going into making sure that he didn't put his feet down hard, causing him to forget about the squeaky floor board in front of the stairs where his dad accidentally blown a hole through the ceiling of the lab, and replaced the board with chewing gum and tossing a rug over it. Although the squeak was barley loud enough for Danny's ears to register it, Jack and Maddie Fenton were at the top of the stairs before Danny could react.
"Danny!" Jack shouted proudly and with excitement. "You have to come check out the new weapon for fighting Ghosts your mother and I have been working on."
"Sorry Dad, I gotta go up and work on some homework. You know Lancer." Danny laughed nervously while slowly working his way up the stairs, trying to put as much room between himself and the lab as possible.
"But wasn't today your last day of school Sweetie?" Maddie asked her very nervous looking son.
"Well yes, but you see…uh…" Danny trailed off looking deep inside himself for any sort of excuse to run up to his room as fast as he could. "Uhh well…the thing is………I wet my self! I have to go change!"
Danny took off up the stairs as fast as he could, face beet red at his excuse. Jack and Maddie just looked after their son with puzzled looks on their faces until Maddie turned to Jack.
"I told you he comes from your side of the family more than mine, he has your hair, your nose and your bladder control."
"Well I donno about…" Jack began and then he stopped, looked down and turned around with his hands in front of his pants then turned to the stairs himself.
"Be right back!"
Danny reached his room and tossed his backpack in the corner. Jumping into his bed and looked up at his ceiling, closing his eyes and started thinking about all the fun that he was going to be having with Tucker and Sam over the summer, which quickly replaced the thoughts of his parents new weapons and wetting his pants. As sleep started to move in and darkness took over, the last thing he imagined was himself and Sam in the park, walking along the path in the dark moonless night.
A quick and sharp yell from his mother downstairs calling him for dinner quickly woke Danny up from his dreams. Feeling groggy and very out of it, Danny sat up looking at the clock.
"Well, that's one way to kill three hours." Danny slowly sat up from his bed feeling slightly dizzy then, with a moment of hesitation to get control of his body again, started his decent downstairs to dinner.
Discovering dinner was only microwavable T.V. Dinners was not the best thing for Danny to wake up too, but it was food and he was hungry.
"Sorry about the dinner everyone." Maddie said "Your father and I have been hard at work and we lost track of time."
"I offered to make some dinner in the Fenton Oven" Jack said
"Jack, the Fenton Oven is a unsafe nuclear powered microwave that nearly blew our house up because you put metal in it." Maddie replied.
"But it can slow roast a chicken fast!" Jack responded proudly.
Both teenagers were oblivious to the conversation, Jazz nose in a book and Danny lost in his dream world that he had been so rudely interrupted from. It even took him a moment for him to realize his mother was talking to him.
"Sorry what mom?" Danny asked.
"I asked if you wanted to hear about our new invention" Maddie replied.
"Oh yeah, sure." Danny replied, figuring one way or another he was going to see it, and might as well figure out how to avoid it now rather than while fighting it in his Ghost form later.
"Well you see, first off its caused an awful lot of waste. We have created a new garbage shoot in the lab that goes into the sewers to use as testing grounds and as a waste receptacle. But you see the really great thing about them is….."
Maddie was cut off by a series of alarms and bells going off. Jazz, Maddie and Danny all covered their ears and yelled at Jack to turn off the alarms. Jack, however, was not phased at all by the blaring sirens or whistles going off in the house. He was to busy with his dinner, almost eating the entire thing in one bite. Pausing for a moment to digest he looked at his confused and upset family with a upturned eyebrow until he realized what was going on.
"MADDIE! GHOSTS!" Jack tried as he jumped from the table. Running down to the lab the alarms turned off. Rushing back up stairs he grabbed his children and tossed them into the basement.
"Don't worry kids! We got this placed wired so no ghosts will be able to get you down here!"
Jack slammed the door shut and pushing several buttons on the keypad outside the door. Danny walked up to it and tried to open it only to get a shock from the anti-ghost technology in the door. Jazz tried only to find it locked. Danny went ghost and attempted to phase through the walls of the room, only finding each one impossible to get through.
"Well looks like I'm sitting this one out." Danny said to his sister while returning to his human form.
"Well this will give us time to talk!" Jazz said with excitement in her voice.
Danny could only raise an eyebrow and frown at the idea.
Several hours later Danny was banging his head on the floor while Jazz continued to talk about how depressed Danny apparently was, even through he didn't know about it. To much stress from fighting ghosts apparently. Jazz stopped and gave him a dirty look when she relized he wasn't listening then quickly changed the subject.
"So you ask your friend Sam your in love with out yet?"
Danny, startled by the question accidentally hit his head harder then he meant on the floor.
"wait what?"
Before jazz could reply Danny's ghost sense went off.
"So much for ghost free room." Danny said raising his arms. "Goin' Ghost"
Two circles of white light surrounded Danny and changed him into his dark jumpsuit. Grabbing Jazz, Danny flew into the back of the lab, turning them invisible at the same time. Searching for the ghost, Danny and Jazz witnessed the Ghost Portal's doors get ripped open and ghost start pouring out. As the ghosts exited the ghost zone at an alarming rate all Danny and Jazz could do is sit and hide as an army of massive proportion entered their world. When Walker, Skulker and Vlad all came out at the same time, and all the ghosts bowed to them at once with the wave of Vlads hand, the same thoughts came to both brother and sisters minds at the same time.
"This will not end well."
So Chapter 1 re-done. I think its much better and I think that will make the story overall better too. I have removed the original story now from FanFiction, and will now update this as if it's a new story because after writing this I would rather people think that it was something new rather than see this, then read the old and go wow, that sucks what the hell? So yeah, read, review if you don't mind or at least send some sort of physic message to me saying it was moderately good and are looking forward to the next chapter with a tiny bit of anticipation. Also to compare how much is being changed from the original, the first chapter of the original was four pages long, this is six. So I hope that those extra two pages are good!
-P4223
