What's up, guys? Hey, I'm really sorry for the long wait. I wasn't really motivated enough. I was going to do it Sunday night, but after the Giants meltdown against the Titans, I wasn't near in the mood. Then the site was being stupid last night, so I couldn't do it then. Finally got it now, though. And thanks for the reviews!
Here's Chapter 2! I don't own Danny Phantom.
Energy Emergency
Chapter Two: Distracting and Deviant
That afternoon, after school got out, Danny and Sam met at Fenton Works to get a head-start on their midterm project. Tucker had been forced to head to Star's house to work on theirs, at the expense of losing his teeth if he didn't.
Danny and Sam sat in the living room, trying to think of a literary work to use references from for their paper.
Not long after they began, Danny rang out, "How about we do something from 'Romeo and Juliet'?"
Sam quickly shook it off, "Too superficial. I bet at least half the class is going to use that old love tale. If we want Mr. Lancer to commend us enough that we get a good grade, we'll have to be original."
Danny sighed, "Original. How are we going to get something original?"
"We just have to think of something a bit more…present-day. Something that hasn't been used a billion times before."
Just then, Danny felt a bluish mist come out of his mouth, causing his body temperature to drop slightly. He gasped at seeing this.
No more than two seconds later, the two of them heard a huge crash as two figures burst through the wall. One of them had light blue skin, a goofy hat, and overalls. The other one had blonde hair, oddly shaped eyes, and what looked like striped pajamas.
Danny said, "The Box Ghost and Klemper?"
"Never!" The Box Ghost shouted, currently facing Klemper, "As I have told you many times before, I shall not be your friend!"
Klemper whined, "Pwease?"
Danny and Sam both groaned, with Danny saying, "If ghosts are going to interrupt, can they at least be someone higher up on the food chain?"
With that, a glowing ring quickly formed at his waist, and split into two rings, with one going up and the other going down. As they passed through Danny's body, his white-and-red shirt and jeans became a black-and-white jumpsuit. Gloves appeared on his hands, boots replaces his sneakers, his eyes changed from blue to green, his hair changed from black to white, and a D logo with a P on the inside appeared on his chest.
Now as Danny Phantom, he calmly blasted the two whining ghosts with a single ghost ray. The ray approached them, but then suddenly passed right through them. They hadn't gone intangible.
Both Danny and Sam looked puzzled at this. A few seconds later, the Box Ghost and Klemper both flickered a few times, and then faded out of sight.
Danny asked his Goth friend, "Am I missing something here?"
Just then, from behind them, a glowing green rope suddenly flew out, grabbing hold of Danny by his foot. Sam gasped and Danny yelled as he was pulled out through the open window.
Danny was dragged further and further upward into the afternoon sky, where he spotted a large ghost with a high-tech black-and-silver battlesuit, green hair, and a belt with the letter S on it.
"Skulker," Danny growled.
Skulker grinned nastily, "I am glad to see my new holograms worked like a charm."
"You better enjoy it," Danny snarled, "It's the last thing you're ever going to be happy about."
With that, Danny fired a ghost ray out of his finger and the rope snapped in two, leaving him free.
Skulker immediately began to yell out in anger as he fired multiple missiles at his teen foe. However, Danny skillfully began dodging the shots, all the while looking to retaliate against the hunter ghost.
During a brief cease fire was Danny's moment to strike, and he knew it. He quickly fired a large ball of energy at Skulker. He quickly flew downwards and it passed over him, but Danny rapidly charged at Skulker and delivered a massive kick to Skulker's chest…only to see his foot hit what felt like concrete and bounce off.
Skulker looked completely unharmed while Danny's foot throbbed in pain. He then laughed sinisterly and asked, "You like it? Triple-reinforced steel. It would take a team of rhinos to break through this armor."
He then rammed Danny hard with his body, knocking Danny for a loop.
Danny looked up and spotted Skulker firing twin blasters at him. He quickly dodged the attack and fired a ghost ray at him, aiming for his head, but it missed to the right by inches.
Skulker then taunted him, "Out of practice, ghost boy?"
This was partly true. There hadn't been a lot of ghost activity since the massive invasion nearly a month ago that had pushed Danny to the limit, save for Undergrowth's invasion, but Danny didn't think he had lost his touch.
He then growled as his hands began to glow blue, "I'm thinking it's time for you to chill out!" At this, large pointed pieces of ice shot out of his hands towards Skulker.
Skulker clearly had not been expecting this as he was struck numerous times by the ice.
Danny smirked. Frequent practicing with Frostbite had helped him with his new ice powers since he had obtained them.
Seeing that Skulker had been fazed by the icy assault, Danny shot towards Skulker like a bullet and fired a ball of energy straight at Skulker's head. It hit dead-on and Skulker was knocked down and into a tree trunk, where he slid down.
Danny smiled as he flew down towards him.
Sam, who had been watching the commotion from down on the ground, ran towards Danny with a Fenton Thermos in her hand.
"Danny, catch!" she cried as she threw the thermos up to him.
Danny held up one hand to catch it, but suddenly his eyes glowed completely green and his head jerked just like during lunch, and he suddenly fired ghost rays out of both hands. One hit a bush and made a huge hole in it, and the other ray hit Dash Baxter as he walked down a street, burning most of his hair to a crisp.
Sam looked puzzled as she called out, "Danny, what's wrong with you?"
As for the thermos she had thrown, it flew down towards Skulker, who caught it with a smile and flew up to Danny, saying sinisterly, "Allow me."
While Danny still looked out of his mind, Skulker opened the thermos and proceeded to suck Danny inside!
"Danny!" Sam shouted in dismay.
Danny screamed loudly as he was sucked inside the swirling vortex and into the thermos.
Skulker laughed and said, "That was surprisingly convenient."
But from behind him, a bright pink blast suddenly struck him, knocking him down to the ground and forcing him to drop the thermos on the way down.
Up above him, a figure sporting s red-and-black suit with a visor over the face and riding on a red-and-black board. This was Amity Park's human teen ghost huntress, Valerie Gray.
"Valerie!" Sam cried.
"Just one second, Sam!" Valerie called down to her as she brought out a Fenton Thermos of her own. She had never gotten the one Vlad Plasmius had sent her to work, so Danny had lent one to her shortly after his ghostly secret had been revealed.
With Skulker down on the ground, Valerie opened the cap of her thermos and sucked the screaming hunter inside.
She then shut the thermos as her suit disappeared, revealing her regular human face and clothes to Sam.
Sam asked her, "How did you know to come here?"
Valerie responded, "I spotted a blast of ectoplasmic energy firing through the air. I figured Danny might need a bit of help."
"Well," Sam said as she picked up the thermos that had Danny trapped inside, "He does now."
"So," Valerie said with a smile, "Word around school is you guys got paired up for Lancer's midterm project."
Sam rolled her eyes, "Yeah. Word's right." But then she smiled, "Another word around school is you got paired up with Nathan."
Valerie's smile disappeared in the blink of an eye as she grumbled, "Uh-huh."
"Valerie!" a nerdy voice suddenly rang out.
"Oh, man!" Valerie cried as she spotted the green sweatshirt and huge orange afro of Nathan running towards her with flowers in his hand.
Sam chuckled as Valerie turned around and immediately ran away from Nathan, who cried after her, "Please come back! If we get a good grade, you might be tempted to accompany me to Senior Prom!"
As they both disappeared from Sam's sight, she heard Nathan yell, "It's only two and a half years away, Valerie! Two and a half years!!"
Sam laughed and shook her head.
Right then, she heard Danny's muffled voice come through the thermos, "Um, Sam, hello? I'm still stuck in here!"
Sam sighed, "Relax. We'll get you out of here."
But as they headed back to Fenton Works, she thought to herself, What was going on with Danny when I threw him the thermos? It's like he wasn't himself for a moment.
She tried not to think about it that much, but the thought stayed in her mind as she walked, with Danny inside the thermos contained in her hands.
That's all for now! At the moment, I'm having a bit of trouble with the plotline and how I'm going to make this work. If anyone has ideas, I'd like to hear them.
Just so you all know, Valerie does show up a few times in this fic, but her role isn't quite as major as in "Phantom Prophecy." Anyway, stay tuned for more! Chapter 3 is coming soon!