Danny Phantom (c) Butch Hartman

Story (c) Me

Danny was in and out of the locker room as fast as he could, then rushed to the gym. To his relief, the teachers hadn't shown up yet when he looked inside. Nothing other than kids hanging around and talking. Sam and Tucker were looking for him. He frowned, and making sure no one was looking, turned invisible. He walked in- no one noticed him. When he approached his friends, they heard footsteps approaching. He whispered to them. "Let's go in the corner. I can turn visible behind you guys. It'd kinda freak out everyone else that I appear out of nowhere."

Sam and Tucker smiled and did what he told them. When they were out of the way, Danny went behind them and became visible. They then began to talk casually for awhile, until a shrill cry of a whistle got their attention. Tetslaff had finally gotten in the gym. They rushed over to where she was taking role call, getting in a line of alphabetical order. Danny and Tucker were lined up next to each other as a result; Fenton and Foley.

Tetslaff walked down the row of kids, writing down who was present and who wasn't. "...Baxter, Chippen, Dean..." The woman paused when she got to Danny. He shyly tried to smile at her. She sized him up. "...Fenton." she wrote down, still staring at the boy. She raised and eyebrow and continued on. "Foley, Green..." she continued reading last names off. Danny and Tucker looked to each other. Danny frowned.

"She could not have given me a stranger look if she tried." he muttered, ignoring kids who turned to peer at him and Tucker. Tucker shrugged.

"I'm not too surprised. She was comparing who was more of a manly man than the other- you or me. I was the victor, of course." Tucker said with a smirk. Danny snickered. Tucker always knew how to lighten a mood. This only lasted a minute.

"Fen-ton! How're you? And Foley!" a familiar voice rang from behind them. Danny groaned.

"Not this again..."he thought, annoyed, as he turned to see Dash. He frowned. "Dash, if you're just here to to continue to convince me to join the football team, the answer is no." Dash shook his head.

"No, no! Uh...listen, you guys...I just want to, uh, apologize for what I did...I shouldn't never been mean to you guys. You're cool. I wanted to know if we could be friends 'n stuff! All the other A-list kids are hoping so! All the three of you- Fenton, Foley, and Manson. What do ya say?" he asked. Danny and Tucker shared an unimpressed look, then turned back to Dash.

"Dude," Danny crossed his arms. "You've picked on us since elementary school. That'd be kinda hard to just let go. You've shoved us in lockers, you've pulled all sorts of pranks on us- not funny, ah-ha-that-was-a-good-one-pranks. No."

"They were cruel, cruel pranks! Not to mention the occasional swirly! And now..."

"It seems like you just wanna be friends with us because I'm the ghost boy and Sam and Tucker were- are still are- heroes who work along with me. It will take a long time before we can actually be considered friends..." Danny paused. Dash looked saddened and defeated. Before he turned away, Danny and Tucker muttered to each other, coming to an agreement.

"But-" Tucker said, making Dash looked up at them hopefully. "I guess we can start now the 'healing' process...first things first. We have first names, Dash, use them. I'm Tucker, my best friend right here is Danny. Got that?"

Dash nodded eagerly. "Of course, Tucker! Oh wow...that's going to be awkward. And Danny...yeah. I'll see you guys later." With that, he walked off, triumphant. Danny shrugged.

"Sure it was smart to give him a chance?" he asked. Tucker smiled.

"Might as well- he would become more annoying than anything if we didn't-"

"Fenton and Foley, get over here!" Tetslaff shouted. The two spun around and ran to the crowd of kids around her. She waited for them, then spoke. "We're playin' hockey today. Teams of five. A goalie, two defenders, and two offense players. Get into groups, but if it doesn't work, I'll put you in teams myself. Go!"

Immediately Danny, Sam and Tucker scrambled to start their group, avoiding anyone else who tried to be on their team. They did allow Mikey to join them. A girl named Iris that Sam was an acquaintance of joined them, making the group of five. "Who's playing what position?" Mikey asked. Danny smiled.

"I'll be goalie...I'm not much good at offense." he said. Iris and Mikey stared at him. He frowned. "I am only 'super' in ghost form." he clarified. They gave an 'oh' and said okay. Sam and Iris were put on offense, Tucker and Mikey on defense. They were assigned a goal, and they began to play against another team.

It went normally. Sometimes Sam and Iris got a goal, sometimes they didn't. Sometimes Mikey and Tucker could block a puck, sometimes they couldn't. Danny sometimes blocked an incoming puck- and sometimes he missed. Soon gym was over. Tucker chattered with Danny on the way to the locker room. "That wasn't so bad, was it?" he asked. Danny smiled.

"Well, gym's always bad, no matter what. But not as bad as I expected today."

He was about to regret saying that. After they got dressed and left the lockers, some boys approached them. "Hey Ghost Boy," one of them said, "I wanna see your powers. I got some paper here. Mind blasting a hole through it or something?"

"No thanks." Danny said, frowning. They groaned.

"Aw, c'mon! Just one?"

"No."

"Why not?"

"Because I don't want to. I don't see a point in it."

"But-"

"Alright, you wanna see my powers?" Danny asked them. They nodded eagerly. Danny turned invisible, startling them.

"What- where did he go?" one of them asked, looking around.

"Boo!"Unlike this morning, Danny had put more effort into that 'boo', which made them shout in surprise and run. Danny turned visible, laughing. He and Tucker shared a high-five. Dash approached them, rolling his eyes.

"Danny, you oughta know those guys are gonna come back. An' next time they're not gonna be afraid of that trick. Just tell them you'll kick their ass if they bother you." Dash suggested. Danny rotated his head towards him.

"Nah, too straightforward. I'll just find more pranks to pull on them."

"Like the ones you probably pulled on me before we knew who you were?" the jock asked. Danny nodded.

"Exactly like the ones we pulled on you!" he said. Dash rolled his eyes again and left. Sam caught up with them a minute later. At the moment, it was nutrition- time to relax for a few minutes. They went to their usual lunch table and talked- Danny was beginning to get used to ignoring people. Alas, soon the bell rang. Next period was Biology.

AN: don't bug me about Iris, 'cause she's never coming back. I just needed to throw someone extra into their team. So there.