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BY THE WAY
Most of my stories have not been finished FYI, but that was because they were made off of boredom. THIS story was made so I would have a plot I have wanted to read FOREVER :). Before PP and right before the Golf War.
~Danny~
The bell rang in my ears, spiking my enhanced ghost hearing and almost making me jump a few feet in the air. I almost naturally transformed into my alter-ego from fright. After re-adjusting to my surroundings, I realized I was just in Lancer's class and had fallen asleep.
The night before had been filled with an awful fight between Ember and Skulker. Usually, it would have taken about twenty minutes to defeat them, but then Vlad stepped into the mess. Skulker had picked up some new equipment, probably from Vlad, and was testing it out on me. Meanwhile, the other halfa just sat in the air and ate popcorn, watching me get beat up. Ember was just there to cheer her boyfriend on, but eventually her hatred for me gave in and she began attacking. Once the happy couple was tucked away in the thermos, Vlad fought me when I was exhausted and weak, just for laughs. How humorous. He snagged my thermos off me and then left me alone. When I finally got home around 5 AM, it took a lot of overshadowing that I did not have the energy for to get out of trouble. I ended up crashing on the couch.
It was a bad night, to say the least.
On the way to class with Tucker and Sam, I fell silent while the two droned on about something teenagerish. Tucker eventually noticed me blankly staring ahead and waved his hand in my face, commenting, "Hello? Earth to Danny? Helloooo?" My eyes sleepily looked at him as we dragged on to our next class.
"Danny, we were thinking, Nasty Burger after school?" Sam asked, helping Tucker catch me as I almost fell from my backpack's weight. I was too tired to be at school, especially with my excessive ghost hunting equipment making my backpack heavier. Oh, not to mention the piles of homework I never had time to do and was too lazy to clean out of my backpack. Being a superhero definitely had its advantages and disadvantages. "Whoa, Danny, you don't look so hot. You okay?"
"So now I'm not hot? Today really isn't a good day," I replied in a low, half-asleep voice. Sam blushed. "I'll be fine. Just.. Skulker, Vlad, and Ember. Why not throw in Valerie, Technus, Johnny, and anyone else who hates my guts into the mix?"
"...Rough night, eh?" Tucker said, patting me on the back. "I've gone some Mountain Dew if you want it. May wake you up." He pulled a bottle out of his backpack.
Sam glared at him. "Hey! You said you had no more left," she growled.
"Oh. Whoops... Guess I do have some!" Tucker nervously chuckled and handed me the bottle. "Just had to, er.. I guess I just forgot! But Danny needs it now, don't you, buddy? No need to thank me." Sam was not amused. She stomped on Tucker's foot and he yelled in pain.
I popped the lid off of my soda and took a sip. Ick. It was warm. I tightened my hand around the bottle and proceeded to cool it down with power from my ice core. See, this was one of the advantages I was talking about! Never having to deal with room temperature drinks. There was the whole saving people, flight, invisibility, intangibility, built in guns.. Just a long list of my abilities that were helpful. Even though I could try to complain about the bad side, I would never switch my life if I had the chance.
"So, Nasty Burger after school, Danny?" Sam repeated. I finished drinking my soda. It woke me up a little bit, but not very much.
"Yeah, sure.." I didn't really pay attention to what she had just said. We finally reached our class. Once we got to lunch, I ate a sandwich and fell asleep on the table.
I transformed into Danny Phantom and rose from my seat. All the kids around me stared, mouths wide open. Different ghost hunters came in, and Valerie changed into her hunting equipment. All my classmates began cheering all the hunters on. Out of nowhere, more and more ghosts began to phase through the ground. All the people were oblivious to the attacks and kept attacking me. Sam and Tucker quickly ran out of the cafeteria, glancing back once with an apologetic smile. I tried to fend the humans off without hurting them, and then dealt extra deal to all the ghosts. "Danny!" Someone shouted.. The voice was so familiar. "Danny? Daaaanny!" I looked around and got tackled by all my enemies. "Danny!"
My head rose really suddenly. I looked down at myself, in my normal clothes and in my normal form. Just a dream. "Danny!" Sam shouted at me. "Finally. Your eyes were glowing through your eyelids."
"As if people around here don't already think we're weird enough," Tucker mumbled.
"Wh-what? Did anyone notice?!" I looked around, looking for any wide-eyed kids. I made sure I was completely Fenton.
"No. We didn't notice until a minute ago. It was just a faint glow," Sam said. "Stop worrying Danny, nobody here knows your secret or would even suspect." Oh, right. I am Danny Fenton to them, not Danny Phantom. Nothing about that name clicked in their heads. Even Valerie was clueless.
"Right.. Right. Nobody here knows my secret." I tried to forget my dream, or rather, my nightmare. Sam raised an eyebrow in suspicion.
"Are you sure you're okay Danny?" Her voice sounded so caring.. My friends were the best. I nodded my head and smiled warmly at her. "Well, then you want to go to Nasty Burger after school with Tucker and me?"
"I can't. My grades are starting to massively suffer from my lack of completed homework. I need to get at least half credit on the assignments that teachers will let me turn in late," I explained. "Trust me, I'd much rather be at a burger joint with my best friends." And a night off, every once in awhile, I silently added.
Once we finally were finished with school, I went home to do my work. I had barely finished that night's homework before I got a weird feeling, like someone was watching me. Instinctively, I turned into Phantom. "Time out!" A time medallion was placed around my neck. I stared up at Clockwork, in his adult form.
"Clockwork? What's up? Is something wrong?" I'd spoken to my ally a few times, but he usually contacted me when something bad was happening. Nothing seemed to be wrong, except that I was completely drained and needed a nap, but that was becoming normal.
"Danny, I need to send you on a vacation." Finally, I thought. A vacation. A time for leisure and recreation. I frowned. Unless you're me. This is probably some ghost hunting thing or life lesson. Ugh.
"Where to?"
"Gravity Falls, Oregon." Clockwork was frowning. There was something he was not telling me.
"Never heard of the town," I replied, waiting for him to tell me what he was hiding.
"It's not big, like New York City or Los Angeles or Tokyo. Those who have heard of it know it because of supernatural activity. Much of the havoc caused there isn't by ghosts, but by other inhuman creatures. There are some ghost portals in the ghost zone to there, actually."
"I've explored the ghost zone, Clockwork, and never seen them."
"They're hidden, Danny. I need to send you there to stop a threat. I would step in.. but he's powerful. If I get destroyed by him, all my work I've done goes, too." The Nasty Burger explosion! That would be erased. "...But your close ones wouldn't be the only ones gone. I have many other good works that, if undone, can destroy the world as we know it."
"You said he. Who is he?"
"His name is Bill Cipher. I'm going to give you a week in advance to warm up to the town, because some weird things can go on there."
"He sounds powerful, why have I never heard of him?"
Clockwork scratched his head. "Well... Danny, to tell you the truth... It's not in our dimension. I need to send you there to defeat him, or the fool could make all dimensions collapse."
I let that sink in for a moment. "...What's it like there? Bigfoots as the inhabitants, aliens trying to take over (Heh. Saving THAT for another fanfic...), mermaids and mermen rule the planet?" (He said it the way he was listing the terrible things that the Cheese king or whoever when he first met Vlad could do to him). I was anticipating this place to be weird, especially since Clockwork was giving me time to adjust.
"No, actually. It's very similar to your world. Humans roam there, and you would be very uncommon. I'm placing you there, much like I had the mix of Technus and Skulker placed in your time to attack you. The difference is that your role is crucial to everyone's survival."
"Well, what's the difference between there and here?"
"666 years ago, Bill Cipher formed when a few men attempted to make something similar to another Pandora's box. They wanted to transport apparitions of dark magic to another kingdom for their own benefit. He's an evil dream demon and he's insane. What he does has very heavy consequences. He's similar to Freak Show. His intentions are to flip reality to the mind realm, where he is all powerful. While it may work for a few minutes, everything begins to slowly crumble until there is nothing. If I disrupt his creation in the past, the evil spirits used to make him will end your world."
I breathed out heavily and rubbed the back of my neck. What could I do? There was no way I could back out of this. Clockwork must have had faith in me, or else he wouldn't have asked me. "What about Amity Park? Who will protect Amity Park?"
"I've already spoken to Valerie and Dani."
I laughed a little. "How did Valerie react to a ghost asking her for help?"
"I... Indirectly spoke to Valerie through Dani. They're actually pretty good friends. She wouldn't listen to me if I tried." Weird how someone can be the best of friends with your clone, but hate your guts.
"Good. Maybe Valerie will learn to fight actual bad guys, instead of making me her favorite... My mom and dad. What about them?" A robot rolled into the room with a wig similar to my hair.
"Hello Danny!" It said in a robotic voice, similar to my own.
I rolled my eyes. "Is this really going to cut it? My parents are smart..." I thought about that for a moment. "Well, my mom is smart..."
"Just trust me, Danny."
"What about Sam, Tucker, and Jazz? I have to tell them."
"No! You cannot tell them. No matter what. Danny, you will see them again, but you have to trust me. Are you ready to go?"
"Right this instant? As in, right now? Not later?"
Clockwork nodded. "One more thing. You cannot reveal your secret, no matter what. The place is crawling with government agents and experienced hunters. They will not trust easily, but you need to make allies, human or ghost. Both forms need friends. Are you ready to go?"
"I... I guess." This was a big decision. I had nobody to back me up, either. Without Sam and Tucker, I couldn't get caught once, or else I would be trapped.
"Thank you, Danny." Ghosts rarely thanked me. "Transform and take off your time medallion so I can transport you."
Two familiar rings formed around my waist, changing me back. I closed my eyes and took off the medallion. When my eyes reopened...
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