Chapter 2
Isaac was a few inches shorter than Alister, and just a little slimmer. He had dark olive skin, close cropped black hair, and black eyes, but the man's most noticeable feature was a knife scar that ran from the top of his left cheekbone to his ear.
"Look." Isaac pointed to one of five computer monitors that were surrounding him. On the screen there was a swat team headed into a back entrance.
"That's cocky of them." Alister snached Danny by his hair and turned on the PA system.
Over the loudspeakers everyone heard, "Hey! Let go of me!" as Danny struggled, and then they heard the noise of Danny getting punched in the stomach and dropped to the floor. Then there was a gunshot and a scream.
Finally Alister spoke. "Get out or Drake releases a round on the rest of them." He cocked his gun for sound effect as Danny whimpered in the background.
The team looked up and saw the cameras and quickly moved back out of the building. Sam and Tucker like everyone else heard the gunshot and scream. "Danny!" they both yelled at the same time.
"Shut up!" Drake shouted at them pointing his gun.
Tucker quieted, but Sam knew the scream ment Danny was alive. "Please. He's my best friend. I need to see him."
"Did you not hear me girl?" Drake asked cocking his gun.
Sam was truly afraid, but Danny needed her. "Then shoot me next."
"What!?" Drake suddenly stopped confused.
"You're shooting more people if they don't give into your demands, so take me to Danny and you can shoot me next." Sam was very careful not to let her voice waver. Tucker was shooting Sam questioning looks, but she ignored him.
Drake raised an eyebrow and relayed the situation to Alister who said, "Put her with the others. I'll have Isaac take the boy back as well."
"You got it." Drake replied and then watched as Sam walked down to him. "Come on." She nodded and followed him to the basement. Then he opened the door and Sam saw Danny.
He was laying on the floor surrounded by a pool of his own blood, but Danny was still breathing shallowly so Sam raced in. "Danny!" Drake rolled his eyes and closed the door.
Danny opened his eyes and smiled at Sam, but it came out more like a grimace because of the pain. "Hi." he said weakly.
"You idiot!" Sam ranted, "Are you trying to get yourself killed? Ever heard the phrase live to fight another day!?" As she spoke she walked to the box Mr. Lancer had been sitting on and pulled out a first aid kit from behind it. Suddenly she turned on Dash, "You." Dash, who was already shaking and crying from the sight of so much blood, cowered before the shouting goth. "I need you to carry Danny and place him over here." When Dash didn't move immediately she yelled louder, "Now!" Dash quickly moved to do as she asked after that.
The jock gently picked up the boy he'd so often stuffed into lockers and carefully moved him to the spot Sam had indicated. Sam stopped yelling and kneeled next to Danny, ignoring the blood staining her knees. Then she opened the first aid kit. It was the special one that the loser trio, as Sam, Tucker, and Danny were often called, had hidden for emergencies. She started with a bottle of water and slowly washed some of the blood away. Then she quickly got to work taking the bullet out with a pair of tweezers. Danny had no more warning than, "This is going to hurt worse than getting shot." Still he managed not to scream, even if he couldn't hide that he was in pain. Then with a similar warning to the one before Sam pulled out a small curved needle and stitched the wound closed. Sam handled it like a pro, and after disinfecting and wrapping the wound she was done.
The other three captives in the room were amazed that Danny never screamed, not even when Sam had pulled out the bullet, but after she finished wrapping him he was left gasping like he'd run a marathon. He was pale and sweaty and covered in blood, but he was alive. "Thanks, Sam." He said in a rough voice.
"You know I hate stitches." She meant to continue reprimanding him for being reckless, but her voice was too full of emotion and Danny knew she meant that she hated to see him hurt and was worried. Sam's sentence made everyone besides Danny wondered if Sam had one stitches before.
"I'm sorry for doing this to you Sam. Though you know you're as good, if not better than any doctor I could go to." Danny complemented.
"That's because you can't go to a doctor dork." Sam chuckled weakly, and Danny smiled though it was a little sad.
"You know what I meant." Danny said.
"Samantha, what are you two talking about? Surely you are not implying that you've given Danny stitches before?" Mr. Lancer demanded an explanation.
Danny jumped having forgotten the presence of the other captives, and then winced at the resulting pain, though it was starting to get better thanks to his super healing. Sam also jumped and spun to face Lancer, "I, um, no! Where would you make that assumption? That's crazy." She smiled innocently and the captives bought it.
Suddenly Danny's eyes widened and he said, "Sam check the time." Sam looked down at her watch and Danny said, "How long has it been since I was shot?"
"Ten minutes, just about. Why?" Sam asked.
"Shit!" Everyone even Sam was surprised. Danny never cussed. He always chose to use the more mild words of his father, like fudge, so if he was cussing this was serious.
"What?" Sam asked.
"I only have twenty minutes to enact my plan before he shoots the next person, and he won't let the next one live." Danny said.
"I was actually curious. Why are you alive?" Sam asked knowing full well that these men were more than capable of shooting a boy point blank in the head.
The entire room listened closely to Danny's every word. "There was a swat team coming in, so instead of killing me instantly in five minutes they bumped up the time and shot me so I'd bleed out. They could have hit me in the head, or heart," he said mirroring Sam's thoughts, "but they didn't, and now they think I'm dead."
"Fentur - I mean - Danny, did you forget they are watching us?" Dash almost called Danny Fenturd right after he was shot, but even Dash wasn't that cruel.
Danny deadpanned, "Dash it's right above my head. Of course I know it's there, and so did Sam. That's why she had you move me to the camera's blind spot."
"What does it even matter that they think you're alive or dead!?" Jessica said hysterically, "Even if you weren't shot, even if you weren't locked in a room with us, and even if you were stronger and smarter than you are, how would you go against three military marksman!?"
Danny sighed, "Help me up." Danny bent his knees and held out his arms for Sam to drag him up. Everyone thought he was crazy, but not as crazy as Sam who listened to him and hulled him to his feet.
He wobbled for a second once up and Sam steadied him and asked, "Are you good?" like the answer could be yes after being hulled to his feet ten minutes after being shot.
When Danny smiled and said, "Yeah, just a little vertigo from bloodloss. I'm fine." Mr. Lancer fainted from the shock. Danny and Sam stopped for a second in shock, but then started laughing at their poor teacher. Danny smiled sympathetically down at the man and said, "He really has been brave during this whole thing."
"Uhuh." Sam said sceptically, "I'll believe brave Lancer when I see it. Anyway," Sam switch back to the important topic, "what's the plan?"
"You have to stay here." Danny barely finished before Sam was fighting.
"No! You already got shot!" Sam yelled until Danny covered her mouth. If she could have she would have bit him, but he had her jaw clamped shut so she settled on glaring his to death.
"We don't have time to argue." Danny said before releasing Sam. "They have security cameras, and remember I'm dead." Danny hinted heavily that he was going to go invisible after changing to Phantom, but Dash and Jessica were just confused.
"That doesn't make any sense, Danny." Dash said in frustration, but Sam and Danny ignored the jock.
Sam sighed, "Fine." She gave in. "But only if you promise to come back in one piece." Danny opened his mouth to mention that he was technically still in one piece, but Sam beat him to the punch, "And no holes!"
Danny laughed lightly and said, "No promises." Before Sam could scold him he pulled a nail and a paper clip from the floor and crouched slightly in front of the door to look like he was picking the lock. In reality he just slipped his hand intangibly through the door and unlocked it from the other side, but Dash and Jessica didn't need to know that.
Danny slipped through the unlocked door after telling Jessica and Dash, "Stay put until I tell everyone it's safe over the PA system." Uncharacteristically Dash, who bullied Danny, and Jessica, who was a willful senior, both simply nodded at the order from the younger and smaller boy. Satisfied Danny closed the door behind him, and then with a muttered, "going ghost", he changed from human to ghost, and flew invisibly to the security room. Alister was now watching the cameras, and Danny knew that Drake would be in the auditorium with the kids, and Isaac would be in the electrical control room.
Danny smirked invisibly as he came up with the perfect plan. Danny first created to duplicates, and then he overshadowed Alister with no problems, and then he used the military body to pick up the radio. "Drake, Isaac, I need you here now!" Danny demanded with the practiced authority of a leader.
"What's up?" came Drake's blunt question over the line.
"Just get here." Danny growled. It wasn't often Martin showed any kind of irritation or uncertainty, so Drake and Isaac picked up the pace.
Both of the other "three musketeers" arrived at the same time, and Danny quickly used his duplicated to knock them out with ecto blasts. Then Danny, the original, let Alister's body fall off of him as he went to work tying the three men to wheeled desk chairs. Once Danny was happy with the results he changed back to his human form and turned on the PA system.
"Um, hi." Danny said, "This is Danny Fenton, and I just thought everyone should know Phantom saved us." Danny could hear the cheers from the auditorium loud and clear from the other side of the school. With a grin he turned off the PA system and ran to the auditorium. Students and teachers alike were shouting and cheering, so much so that it hurt the halfas ears, but he grinned none the less. He was here for a reason though, and it wasn't to be fly tackled by Tucker.
"Um love you too bro, but I'm not here for you." Danny shoved Tucker off of him.
"Oh, cruel!" Tucker said clutching his heart, but then Tucker followed Danny. They were too used to life and death situations anyway.
Danny rolled his eyes and ran up to his PE teacher, Tetslaugh. "Ms. Tetslaugh I need your help!" Danny shouted over the noise.
"What's wrong?" The teacher yelled back.
"Mr. Lancer fainted in the basement. Can you come carry him out?" Danny asked. The teacher's eyes went wide and she quickly agreed. Together Tucker and Danny lead the PE teacher to the basement where Jessica, Sam, and Dash were all trying to figure out how to move Mr. Lancer.
Danny moved into the room followed by Tucker and Ms. Tetslaugh, who immediately picked up Mr. Lancer and carried him back out. As soon as Danny spotted Sam moved to his side, and Dash practically shouted, "How!?"
Danny rubbed his ears at the volume and replied, "How what?"
"How did you beat those guys?" Dash said like it was the most obvious thing in the world. It really was very obvious, but then again Danny was clueless.
"Oh, um." Danny rubbed the back of his neck, stalling for time to think up an excuse, and it didn't take long. "Phantom did it! I mean, I saw Phantom tying up the gunmen." Not a lie, but Dash still didn't know anything about Danny's secrets. Those were Danny's favorite type of explanations.
Dash seemed appeased by the answer, and probably would have forgotten about Danny's bullet wound, but Jessica didn't. "Are you okay?" Jessica asked in a nicer tone than she almost ever used.
Danny glanced to Sam who mouthed "shot", and Danny caught the hint and winced. "Y-yeah. Did you have to remind me?" He put his hand to his now scar.
Jessica grimaced, "Sorry. You want help getting to a doctor?" She asked to be polite, but her face clearly said she didn't want to.
"No, no. I'm fine." Danny waved her off, and then he waved everyone out the door. "Come on. We're all free, let's go." He didn't need to tell them twice. Dash was out the door before anyone else, and Jessica followed closely after. Neither noticed that Sam, Tucker, and Danny hadn't followed them.
Tucker looked to Danny, "How are you going to work this one?"
"Everyone heard you scream on the PA system, so you can't just pretend it never happened." Sam added.
Danny smiled. "I'm going to change, shower, and then I'll blame it on Amorpho. I'll just say one of Danny Phantom's allies, not that Amorpho is an ally, switched places with me and pretended to scream."
"Better hop to then." Sam said, "Cause I doubt you have long to get rid of the evidence before the military is pouring in here."
"Oh, yeah." Danny said as he remembered he had to get rid of the blood on the basement floor, and the blood in the security room. Danny quickly made the floor under the spilled blood intangible, and then he said, "I'll see you guys later once I've cleaned up." Sam and Tucker waved and Danny turned invisible and intangible to get rid of all of the evidence.
Ten minutes later Danny came out of the boys locker room completely dry and blood free. There was already Military roaming the halls leading groups of children out. Danny ducked into a group as they were leaving, and seconds later he hit fresh air. He took a deep breath to enjoy his freedom. Everything was five times better after he had a near death experience. He would know, he'd had enough of them. Danny didn't waste anymore time, and he made his way over to a police officer standing by the perimeter.
"Um, hi." Danny said grabbing the man's attention.
The man nodded to Danny and said, "Hello, I'm Officer Faust, can I help you?" The man waited for Danny to offer more information.
"My name is Danny Fenton, and I was the kid everyone thought was shot." The police officer perked up at the sound of Danny's name, and he looked just about ready to pick Danny up and carry him to the closest medic, but the rest of Danny's sentence stopped him.
"Thought was shot? Kid we heard a gun and then a scream." the officer said.
"I-I know, but it wasn't me. It was a ghost pretending to be me." Danny explained.
"Really? Was it Phantom?" Danny was glad to get an Amity Police officer who already knew about the ghosts.
Danny nodded yes, "Him and another ghost switched places with me so that they took the bullet instead of me. I screamed at the right moment, and then the ghost just created an illusion to make it look like the guys shot me."
"That's some lucky break kid. It's good you told me. Now I can call off the search." Officer Faust said before telling the others over his radio the he had Danny, and Danny was fine.
"Um, actually sir." Danny wanted a valid excuse to leave, and this seemed a good way to do it. "I came over here to tell you Phantom left those guys tied up in classroom 156B. I didn't even think about people thinking I'd been shot. I was just going to go home and forget that the school was ever attacked by someone who wasn't dead."
The officer laughed and said, "Well there's nothing stopping you from going home now. Thanks for the info."
Danny shot a your welcome over his shoulder and quickly ran off towards his house. He was going to have to lie to his parents and assure them he was okay, and then he would call up Sam and Tuck. They still didn't know how he beat the three musketeers. Just an average day in the life of a halfa superhero, except for the nagging feeling that Murphy wasn't done with him yet.
AN: Hi guys. I got way more people following this story than I expected, and a lot of reviews to go with it. The majority of the reviews said one of three things. 1) I love this fan fiction and can't wait for more. 2) You should update way more than once a week. 3)This idea is so original. It's the third that has really got me thinking. I started this fiction fully intending on writing four or five chapters about Casper getting taken hostage. I spent a day writing out chapters 1 and 2, and I liked the story I came up with, but I think I could do much better with this idea. It's because of the comments about how original this idea is that I'm planning on doing another fan fiction. Once this one is done, I'm going to return to this idea and do it justice, but only after I've finished this one.
I got a little case of writers block, and I worked around it, but in the process the story changed from it's original purpose. Now it is somewhat cliche, but I've read what I've written, and I love what I have. Though this wasn't the story I intended I love it all the same, and I hope you will too. I just wanted to let those of you who were hoping for a longer story about the hostage situation to know that I will come back to that idea. I just can't in good conscience not post so many awesome chapters.
I also wanted to say something for those of you who thought I should post more often. I thought about it, and you're right. What's the point of having so many chapters if you're only going to post once a week. So now I'm going to be posting twice a week. I'll post once on Fridays and once Tuesdays, and if I run out of chapters I'll just post as I go.
Thank you guys for your likes, favorites, and reviews. I really never expected much from this story, but I'm glad you've liked it so far. I'll post again soon (likely under a different name because I can't settle on one), so until Tuesday R&R.
