It was late at night. Danny Fenton was happily curled up in bed sleeping for a change. He'd finished up his ghost patrol early that evening and got to bed at a half decent hour. Suddenly something didn't feel right. He woke up and couldn't fall back to sleep by just turning over or punching his pillow in a more comfortable position. Danny growled in annoyance and decided if he couldn't sleep then he should do something constructive. It wasn't too early. Danny glanced at the clock and saw it was five in the morning. He'd been up earlier fighting ghosts in the past. He'd pulled all-nighters in the past too. He'd managed to get five hours of sleep. He could survive on that. He got up and threw on his usual jeans, shirt and shoes. If he got caught unawares by a ghost, he didn't want to change back into Fenton wearing his pyjamas. Don't laugh, it's happened. He once got up and before getting dressed had to fight a ghost. The ghost put up a fight and he got hit a little too hard into a stack of boxes or a dumpster and changed to Fenton in a public place and of course was spotted by Dash. He could only outlive the nickname Fentpeejay once.
Danny pulled out his English homework. It was due for the next day or rather today. Mr. Lancer would not be happy if he turned up for the third time that week without his homework. Especially since it was not the first time that year. He opened his book and began to read the passage before answering the assigned questions. However it wasn't to be. Danny heard something fall downstairs. It wasn't loud enough to wake anyone but loud enough to be heard upstairs. Danny's first thought was ghosts. It wouldn't be the first time that Danny's house had been broken into by ghosts. He sighed. One time he'd like to get his homework done on time. His room was illuminated by a band of white light which separated to form two rings sliding over his body. One going up and the other going down. His jeans, white shirt and red sneakers changed into a black and white jumpsuit with his logo. His black hair turned stark white and his blue eyes changed to a piercing green. His body glowed softly. Not enough to light a room but enough to make him visible to anyone looking. "Let's get this over with," Danny Phantom muttered in a bored voice that echoed ethereally.
He floated up into the air and extended his legs and sank through the floor intangibly in a standing position. He went through the kitchen and into the lab in the basement. However when he saw the intruders, he instantly saw that they weren't ghosts. He had thought that maybe his ghost sense woke him but these people had to break into a locked cabinet to get inside Danny saw as they grabbed a couple of Spectre Deflectors. This didn't look good. One was a woman. She had long jet black hair and sallow greenish skin. She wore a green and black jumpsuit. The other was a man. He also had black hair tied back into a short ponytail at the nape of his neck. He had a scar under his eye and sallow skin, this time a light blue. He wore a dark blue Howie style lab coat. He was grinning gleefully at all the equipment and ordering the woman to grab certain things excitedly.
Danny couldn't let this continue. Both because he was a ghost and these inventions could be dangerous and because he was a Fenton and this was his parents' work. "You really think you can steal from ghost hunters? Especially paranoid ones like the Fentons," Danny called to the thieves, making his presence known. The man looked up and had a momentary expression of fear, but it instantly morphed into one of delight. "Shego, grab him!" the man ordered the woman. Shego looked up at Danny and rolled her eyes. "Ugh, let's get this over with," she grumbled and fired green fire like energy at Danny. He was caught unawares and fell to the ground. Unfortunately right into one of his dad's newest inventions. Spectre Cages. It instantly slammed shut and Danny saw the energy field spread between the bars, trapping him. If he was alone, he could have slipped his hand through the bars and typed in the open password on the keypad outside after changing back to human. Except he wasn't alone.
Shego walked up to the cage and smirked. "That was easy. Dr. D, let's bring the cage too," she announced and watched Danny closely. He frowned and leant back. The energy field between the bars didn't shock him, but it was like the Ghost Shield, he couldn't get through it as Danny Phantom. He was screwed and he knew it. He couldn't get out as Phantom and he couldn't change to Fenton with Shego and Dr. D watching. Danny happened to remember that Jack had put more than one password on the Spectre Cages. One shocked the ghost, one opened the cage and Danny couldn't remember which was which. Shego and Dr. D loaded Spectre Deflectors, his cage and a few spare parts into a hover craft of sorts and then flew off through the gradually brightening night.
Yep, Danny just got caught by accident… point of view will be clear throughout this fanfic or at least for the first few chapters by how characters are referred to, for example, Danny doesn't know Drakken's name except for what Shego calls him and so refers to Drakken as Dr D.
Anyway with that clarified, until the next chapter.
