A/N: I don't own Danny Phantom.
Danny's alarm went off at 6:30 in the morning. He groaned and shut the beeping off. He quickly got up and got dressed, and he was working on his breakfast when there came a knock on the door. He pulled it open to be greeted by the last person he wanted to see.
"Hello, Daniel. How are you? Are you ready for the field trip today?"
"I'll be watching you, Plasmius," Danny warned. Vlad chuckled.
"I wouldn't have it any other way." He walked in and took a seat on the couch. "So, Daniel, where are your parents?"
"They're in the lab working on last minute upgrades to the specter speeder," Danny said, going back to his cereal. He'd barely managed two bites when there was another knock. He looked at Vlad.
"Any chance you'll go get that and let me eat in peace?"
"Absolutely not," Vlad responded.
"Figures," Danny grumbled before going to answer the door. Outside were Tucker and Sam.
"Hey Danny, how's it going," Tucker said. Danny pointed to Vlad on the couch. The other two nodded, understanding the situation. Danny managed to finish his breakfast before the next person arrived.
Eventually everyone had arrived and were standing around in the living room. Then, Jack and Maddy came up from the lab.
"Who's ready to go to the ghost zone?" Maddy asked. Everyone cheered except for Danny, Tucker, Sam, Valerie, Mr. Lancer, and Vlad.
"Are you sure this is safe?" Mr. Lancer said worriedly.
"Of course," Vlad reassured. "I'd trust the Fentons with my life."
"Now I know he's up to something," Danny said. "Vlad wouldn't trust my dad with a sharp stick."
The students were led down into the lab.
"Alright, everyone," Jack said. "This is the specter speeder. It's going to be our transportation while we're in the ghost zone. It's armed with enough weapons to obliterate any ghost that comes within five feet of it." Danny eyed it nervously.
"Please, everyone, board the specter speeder," Maddy said. "We need to get going." Over the last week, the Fentons had been working on elongating the specter speeder to make it more bus-like. Danny hung back, as did Vlad.
"After you, Daniel," Vlad said, pushing him in front of himself.
"I thought you didn't think my dad's inventions worked," he said quietly to Vlad.
"Better to play it safe," Vlad responded. Danny glared at Vlad, but he took a step forward anyway. Nothing happened. Danny sighed in relief and walked onto the bus. Vlad, satisfied that nothing would happen, followed.
Danny sat by the window in the back. Next to him was Sam, and across the aisle was Tucker.
"Ready kids?" Jack asked. Before anyone had time to answer, he shouted "Bonzeye!" and drove off into the ghost zone. There were lots of oohs and ahhs from the students as they flew through the green swirls.
"Where do those doors go?" Star asked.
"Well, kiddo," Jack said, "I'm not quite sure." Danny facepalmed.
"But that's why we're here," Maddy said. "To study and learn." Suddenly the lights went off. The specter speeder stopped moving and plummeted towards the ground. The students screamed.
"Danny, do something!" Sam cried. "Danny?" She turned her head to look at him only to discover he'd passed out. "Danny, wake up!" From around her came a disembodied voice.
"Now, now, we can't have our hero saving the day just yet, Samantha."
"Who are you? What did you do to Danny?" The only response she got was a chuckle before the specter speeder crashed into the ground and everything went black.
Danny was the first to wake up. Groaning, he got to his feet. A short distance away, Vlad did the same. Danny marched over to him.
"What did you do, Plasmius?"
"What makes you think I did this? It was probably because of your idiot father."
"Don't talk about my father like that," Danny threatened. He was about to transform and attack Vlad, when he heard a voice call out behind him.
"Danny?" He turned around to see Sam waking up. Quickly, he ran over to help her stand.
"Are you ok?" he asked. "What happened?"
"We crashed," she said. "The power shut off and the speeder went down, but that's not it. Someone made it so you couldn't save us!"
"What do you mean?"
"When I looked at you, you were asleep. Then when I tried to wake you up someone said that they couldn't have you saving the day just yet."
"That is most curious," Vlad said, walking over to the duo. Danny glared at him, but before he had the chance to do anything there were more groans as people woke up.
"Whoa, what happened," Dash said.
"OMG we crashed!" Star shouted, panicked.
"Why didn't the ghost boy save us?" Paulina asked.
"Great Gatsby!" shouted Mr. Lancer. During all the chaos, Vlad walked up to Danny.
"Look, Daniel, you don't like me, and I find you to be annoying, but for now we need to put our differences aside."
"Why?" Danny asked.
"Because, Daniel, I didn't do this. No matter how much you want to pin this on me, the facts still remain, and I think you know it too."
"What do you mean?" asked Danny.
"You can't possibly tell me you don't feel that. I felt it the moment I woke up after the crash." Danny sighed.
"I was kind of hoping I was just hungry," he admitted.
"If only it were so," Vlad said. "But we both know that that is not the case. Something is seriously wrong, and as much as I hate to admit it, we can figure it out better together."
"So exactly are you proposing," Danny said, getting serious.
"We need to get them out of here," Vlad said, gesturing to the group of humans. "You know this part of the Ghost Zone better than me. Where's the Fenton Portal?"
"What do you mean?" Danny said, confusedly. "It should be right-" he turned around and cut off.
"Well?" Vlad said impatiently.
"It's gone," Danny whispered.
"What? Are you sure?"
"Of course," Danny snapped. "It should be right in between those two mini-islands. I left faint traces of my ecto-signature on them so I'd always be able to tell. It's much more discrete than a giant purple football," he added, looking pointedly at Vlad.
"Then it looks like we'll have to bring them to my portal," Vlad said.
"How are we supposed to explain how we know where we're going?" Danny asked.
"You can figure that out for yourself."
"What do you mean by-"
"Oh Maddy! Daniel here tells me he knows the way out!" Vlad called.
"What?" Maddy shrieked. "How? Where?"
"Um," Danny rubbed the back of his neck. "I may or may not have been to the ghost zone before?"
"Daniel James Fenton, do you know how reckless and dangerous that is? I can't believe you would do something like that!" Maddy yelled.
"It's not his fault, Mrs. Fenton," Sam said. "Tucker and I talked him into it."
"No, Sam, it was all of our idea. We were curious so we decided to take a look around," Danny said.
"And how many times did you do this?" Maddy asked.
"Kind of a lot," Danny admitted. "But the good thing is, we know a way out of here," he added quickly before she could start yelling again.
"Where?"
"You know the Wisconsin Ghost?" Danna asked.
"Yeah,"
"Well he secretly built his own portal. We've been there a few times, enough that it's on our map, at least."
"Great!" Jack said, excited that his son was sort of taking an interest in ghost hunting. "Lead the way, son."
