Prologue: Enough is enough!
"BEWARE!" The Box Ghost declared, and Danny Phantom groaned and pulled out his thermos.
"Look, I'm in the middle of a test right now, so can you PLEASE just skip to the part where you get in the thermos?" He asked, pushing the button and sucking up the weak ghost. "This is SO not helping my grades!" He slammed the lid on.
He rushed back to the classroom, where his third make-up test was waiting for him. Mr. Lancer sighed when he flew in the window and shook his head. "Mr. Fenton, I understand that you have your job, but—"
"I know! I know." Danny held up a hand, changing back to human form before sitting down and continuing his test.
Mr. Lancer pursed his lips but chose to keep his comments to himself, letting the irritated teen work in peace.
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"So, now I have Mr. Lancer AND my parents breathing down my neck." Danny said on the way back from school. "It's like I can't do anything right, because I'm always running off to fight ghosts! I'd give them a copy of my school schedule, but they'd just attack me during those hours just to mess with me!"
Sam sighed, nodding. The constant ghost fights and his ranting about his grades, teachers, parents, and ghosts had put a strain on their relationship and they hadn't gone on a date in a while. Not like they wouldn't be interrupted, anyway…
"At least with summer break coming up I'll only have GHOSTS to worry about!" Danny continued, throwing his hands in the air.
"Well…there IS a way to get around it." Tucker said thoughtfully, cutting off Danny's ranting and Sam's thoughts. "You've had the method this whole time, y'know."
Sam pursed her lips. "You don't mean…"
"You want me to split?" Danny turned to Tucker.
"Hey, it's a good idea." Tucker shrugged. "Phantom can fight ghosts, while Fun Danny finishes his studies. It's no fun getting all the bad grades, right?"
"Yes, but you're forgetting that Fun Danny is a creep." Sam hissed. She had never gotten along with Danny's immoral, carefree, plaid-wearing human half and had a feeling that he was never going to change his tune no matter how many times she talked to him.
"But it's the best idea I'm hearing." Danny said. "I mean, even with me sending out a double to fight, I'll be distracted and exhausted by the end of the day." He rubbed the back of his head. "I'd have to train Phantom, though. Fun Danny kind of takes all the strength."
"I noticed." Sam mumbled, recalling the last time she'd met his human half and had seen him easily lift a dresser to get his hat that Sam had thrown across the room in irritation.
"Well, it IS summer break." Tucker shrugged. "Sam, do you have any ideas? I mean, aside from training everyone in town to fight ghosts with him and making sure NO ONE gets their work done?"
Sam bit her lip. "No…no, I don't have any ideas."
Tucker looked at Danny. "It's your call, Danny."
"Yeah." Danny nodded, sighing. "I think…I'm gonna do it."
Sam glanced to the side. As much as she hated to admit it, they HAD no other options. Trying to talk the ghosts out of attacking had only resulted in Danny getting beat up again. And it WAS true that Fun Danny would care about his grades.
He's gonna do it. He's gonna split, and set Fun Danny upon the school. This should be fun!
Still working on "Are You Awake?", Fun Danny just wanted me to finally get off my lazy ass and do this one. Seriously, the King of Lazy was dragging me off my lazy ass. That's saying something. ~ Zone