Prologue:
"I- I-I can explain…"
His words trailed off, leaving him unable to convince even himself that he could possibly offer a good enough excuse to get out of the trouble he was in for. Suddenly, he wished he could tell his parents why he hadn't had the chance to study, but the day he would reveal his identity seemed farther off than ever. The Fenton Stockades all of a sudden looked pretty comfortable.
"Well then, would you mind telling your parents and I what could have possibly possessed you when you stole the answers?" His teacher spoke sternly, holding up the boy's test answers.
He looked up at his parents shocked faces then back at Lancer and could feel himself sweating immediately. It was an accident! I didn't plan on getting them! They were stuck to my back after the explosion! Danny tried his hardest to say those words but in the end just couldn't. He pictured himself saying it, but nothing came out. Lying about his ghost hunting activities was one thing, but lying about a test was another. Even if his ghost powers were the cause of the mess.
"Not only am I concerned about what this means for any career Danny may want to pursue later on, but cheating could lead to other more criminal acts in the future." The teacher said blankly.
"Mr. Lancer, I see where you're coming from on the subject, but are you implying that my son may grow up to be a criminal?" His mother objected.
"Now, now Mrs. Fenton. I believe that steered down the correct path, Daniel can have success in his life, but whether or not he is willing to do it, I'm not sure of. But seeing as his exceptionally well-guided sister did, I have no doubt that Danny could have done very well on the test."
"B-but Mr. Lancer! Danny has other activities! You can't be saying that you can't give her another shot!" His sister blurted out almost as freaked as Danny was about his secret identity. Her brother was always under constant pressure, but cheating on a test was crossing the line! His powers weren't meant for his own gain.
"I'm sorry Ms. Fenton, but it is impossible to retake the test. I am going to have to flunk him."
"Danny!" His two friends said smiling walking over to the party standing in front of the Nasty Burger.
"Guys? What're you doing here?" He asked with a hint of dread slipping into his voice.
"Nothing much." The girl answered. "But Tucker got paranoid about the sauce tank and it was my parents family night or tagging along, and you could say I jumped at the chance. What're you doing? Wait. Mr. Lancer?"
"Mr. Fenton here can not talk right now Ms. Manson. He in is more trouble than he can dig himself out of at the moment.
"Wait. Danny. You cheated didn't you?"
"Well…yeah…but I got to deal with my parents and Lancer right now so I'll talk to you guys later…"
"There's massive amount of radiation coming from the Nasty Sauce tank!" The techno-geek shouted cutting into the conversation.
"So?" Danny questioned.
"Dude! It's gonna explode!"
"Haha relax! I took care of it earlier!"
The boy waved it off at his words and chuckled a bit, despite the subject.
"No man, look! This is normal level, this is overheated, and this is its breaking point." Tucker said pointing at each object on his PDA with that stylus. The meter showed a bleeping warning sign and an estimated time of detonation which Tucker had unconsciously covered with his thumb.
"Ms. Manson, Mrs. Foley? I'm sure Danny appreciates you two trying to get him out of this, but this is a very serious matter." His overweight teacher said blankly.
"Well this one's even more serious!"
As his friend tried to persuade the teacher to let them take a look at the tank, a blue whisp shot from Danny's mouth turning him in the direction of the box ghost and another being racing after it leaving only a red blur.
"Uh…can I be excused?"
"You most certainly can not young man!" Maddie Fenton scolded.
"Thanks!" He ducked over to the alleyway, and shouted his battle cry a little softer than normal closing his eyes as he became a ghost-powered negative of himself. He crouched then shot up towards the sky letting the wind hit him in the face.
"Haha. You? Look dude. I am SO not in the mood for this, so if you wouldn't mind just getting the thermos we can get this over with." Phantom pointed the thermos at the foe sucking it into the small prison more swiftly than normal and capped the container to silence the obnoxious voice known as the box ghost.
"It's the ghost kid!" Danny looked down from his victory to see he was floating right in front of his ghost-hating dad holding up a small ecto weapon that he probably snuck out of the house.
"Jack, we have more important matters to attend to." His wife muttered turning him around to face her sons teacher.
"W-why don't we go inside?" She said in an attempt to distract her husband. "I'm sure no one will mind…we'll be sure not to touch anything right hon?"
"I see the apple….doesn't fall from the tree." The teacher muttered as Mrs. Fenton fiddled with the Nasty Burger lock and broke themselves in.
Mr. Lancer, Sam, Tucker, and the Fenton family besides Danny sat down on a small table as Mr. Lancer placed a small briefcase for them all to see.
"Now what puzzles me is how he got them. They have been locked in here and have never left my sight. Impossible to get steal, unless, his parents have something that can give a person "ghost like" abilities?"
"Hahaha…No Mr. Lancer. Humans can't have ghost powers!" Said the woman who was ½ responsible for her own son attaining such powers.
Jazz began to grow a bit scared for her brothers secret and clenched her jaw, looking over to Sam and Tucker near the sauce tank and unable to help her protect her brothers secret.
***
"Well…that was easy." Danny said shaking the thermos around. "Oh no. The conference!" He flew at the Nasty Burger to look for a proper place to change back when he was shot out of the sky by a missle hitting him square in the back. He panted and shook a little as he made his way to his feet, not surprised to see the one floating above him.
"Phantom."
"Valerie." He repeated in the same cold tone.
"Look. I really don't have time for this, so I'll just be going on my way and-"
"Not on your afterlife ghost."
"Come on! You have things you have to do! So do I! You don't see me messing with your personal life do you?" He chuckled.
"Actually, I DO!"
A blast rushed at Danny who had only managed to walk a few feet away. He turned back around to stare at the Huntress and the death stare he was probably being given from behind her mask. He lurched forward and hit the ground crippled again from the cheap shot.
"I'm offering peace, okay?" Danny said getting onto his feet and cracking his back. "I just have important thing I have to do, then you can come try to waste me later, okay?"
"Like wasting the Fentons?." Valerie yelled shooting him.
***
"Guys! We've got to get out! This thing is gonna blow in seconds!"
"Mr. Foley, Ms. Manson, that is enough. I understand you care about your friend but the adults need to."
"You can talk all you want later! We've got to get out of here!"
As if on cue, the giant vile of secret sauce began to whistle through the pipes and let heat rise all over the room. Tucker and Sam stared in horror as the meter flew off hitting the picture of the Manager fall to the floor and crack. They all stared at the sauce and ran to the front exit only to be stopped by a huge crashing noise. As they all uncovered their faces they looked to realize that their only open exit had been obliterated and rubble had fallen all over making escape nearly impossible.
***
"Oh no. Mom. Dad? Sam, Tucker, Jazz?" He shouted as his ecto-blast sealed them in.
"Missed me again Ghost!"
"Look, I'm not trying to hurt you!"
"Well neither am I!" Valerie said shooting several rounds bazooka.
Danny formed an ecto-shield around him blocking all the attacks the vengeful girl shot him, still trying not to break his pace to get back to Nasty Burger only to be shot in the back once again and thrown to the ground. Saving the pain for later he phased through the rubble and catching up with those inside. Crippled and ready to cry in pain, he reached out his right hand to and save them. Like a slow motion scene, the girl who he had never admitted his feelings about reached out for him too, but never to connect. Danny watched as his sanity began to fade away along with everyone he ever truly cared for.
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