I don't own Danny Phantom, but I do own Tucker (not).
Ch. 3 Surprise!
Despite the tests and home problems, Valerie was having the time of her life. Tutoring Danny was like her own way of memorizing facts, she got to spend more time on work and her social life because Danny helped her take ghosts down faster than before. With Danny's help, she got more time at her job and with Danny's popularity, Valerie finally got some new friends.
It was hard tutoring Danny for his 3rd quarter test, not to mention her home life and lab results, but she was still happy. She hadn't felt like this since she was hanging out with Danny during the few days before Technus upgraded her suit. Back when they were "dating".
Fenton Household
Late at night, the night before Lancer's 3rd quarter test, Jack and Maddie are finishing up the last of Valerie's tests and Valerie is starting to pack up her stuff.
"So, how are my parents treating you?" Danny jokes, as he holds the door open for Valerie as she exits the lab.
"Meh." she replies.
"Meh? Normally when someone comes over, my parents either scare them off or get sued by the other kid's parents. You've been doing these tests for nearly 2 weeks. Why do you do this?"
"Well, uh my Dad just wants to be 100% sure that this suit isn't too dangerous. Besides, it's not so bad here."
"Are you kidding? My trigger-happy parents are running tests on you." reminds Danny.
"Yeah, but they're not that bad. Besides, Jazz is a nice conversationalist, your parents are probably the only people in town who understand the problems with ghost hunting gear, and it beats working at the Nasty Burger. Not to mention..."
"What?"
"Well, it does give me some more time to hang out with you. I mean, you're like the only person who understands me and knows what I've been through."
"Yeah, it's difficult, but that's life, I guess."
"I don't know why, but I always feel safe around you."
"Thanks, that means a lot."
"No problem, and I think I can trust you enough to tell you something."
"What?"
"Remember when we used to date?"
"Yeah?"
"Well, before we broke up, I-"
"HEY KIDS!" shouts Jack, interrupting thew conversation. The two jump back a little at being surprised by Jack. "Get down here, we finally got the results for Valerie's suit. And boy is it juicy!"
The two look at each other nervously wondering whether or not this news is good or bad.
The two join Jack and Maddie, as well as Jazz and Dani, to see the results.
"Well Dad, what's the news?" asks Danny.
"Is something wrong?" Valerie asks.
"Well that's the thing sweetie. We're not so sure." Maddie responds. "You see... we did find something...unusual."
"Unusual?" asks Danny.
"Have a look for yourself." says Maddie. She pulls out a remote and pushes a button, where a giant monitor lowers itself. I turns on and shows a 3-D model of Valerie's body.
"This is Valerie's body on the outside." narrates Jack. The model changes to an x-ray version of Valerie. "This is the inside."
"Dani, if this gets too graphic-" says Maddie.
"Nah, I'll be good." Dani replies, as she grabs a bowl of popcorn and continues watching them like it's a movie.
"She get's it from my side of the family." Jack boasts to Maddie. "Anyway, this next part might shock you." The screen zooms in on the model and shows a visual of Valerie's bloodstream. Inside, among the red blood cells, are tiny little creatures. Among the red blood cells, are metallic, shiny, almost spider-like creatures that are attacking cholestrial and other hazards.
"AHHHHHHHH!" shrieks Jazz.
"What the heck is that!" Valerie worries. The model pulls up some more screens with visuals of Valerie's other organs such as her arm muscles, heart, brain, etc. and all of them have similar creatures on them.
"Wait a minute, I've seen those before! Those are nanobots!" reveals Danny.
"How do you know about nanobots?" asks Jack.
"Remember when Jazz "ran away"? Well Vlad used her in an experiment with her, nanobots, the ecto converter, and your old ecto-skeleton to try and kill me." tells Danny.
"You really need to tell us more about Vlad's plans later. Anyway, yeah she has nanobots in her bloodstream. At least we know they're Vlad's because nanobots are an advanced form of technology that's rare and expensive." states Jack. "The nanobots in Valerie would be worth enough to even put Vladdie out of business."
"That's Vlad for ya. Always trying to find ways to show off his cash." jokes Danny.
"Then why'd he have Skulker steal them that one time?" wonders Jazz.
"Maybe he had them before, but couldn't afford them or didn't want anyone getting suspicious." suggests Dani.
"What I want to know is why he would do this in the first place?" says Valerie.
"Along with some surveilance equipment we found, the nanobots were probably put in to make you a better ghost hunter." guesses Maddie. "They're already healing sprains, expanding your muscles, increasing heart condition, the works."
"That's not even the strangest part." says Jack, the screen zooms in on the visual of Valerie's brain. Next to the brain are some sort of sockets. "Whatever Vlad has those nanos doing, they were also supposed to set something up that would connect your suit right into your brain, but that Technus guy must have sped it up."
"DAD!" yells Danny, trying to stop Jack from terrifying Valerie even more.
"The good news is that it can't connect without some sort of activation sequence, and with Vlad in space there isn't anyone on Earth who knows the code." assures Maddie.
"But other than that you're fine." says Jack. Valerie sighs after that, feeling safer knowing that she's safe for now. Danny on the other hand can't help but worry knowing how wrong his parents were.
Casper High
Danny and Valerie are already at work on Lancer's test. Danny is trying hard to pass the test while Valerie is having time concentrating knowing that there are nanobots in her. Lancer was reading when Danny handed in his test.
"Ahem." says Danny. Lancer looks up to see that Danny has finished his test before the others.
"Finished already, Mr. Fenton?" asks Lancer.
"Yep, spent a lot of time studying." Danny answers. He returns to his desk while Lancer pulls Danny's paper to the side. By the time school got out, everyone had finished the test. The students rush out of the weekend to celebrate finishing the hard test. Danny and Valerie get ready to leave as well.
"Not so fast. I need to talk to the two of you." says Lancer. Suspicious, they sit back down. "I know I told everyone else that I would have the tests graded by Tuesday, but since I wanted to make sure your tutor was doing a good job, I decided to grade your test early."
"How'd I do?" asks Danny.
"Look for your self." says Lancer, handing Danny back his paper.
"This is my grade?"
"I must admit, I expected more from you. Oh well, that's life. I'll see you two on Monday."
"But-"
"I'll see you on Monday." Danny calmly leaves the room.
"It was that bad?" asks Valerie.
"Did I say that?" says Lancer.
"YAHOOOOO!" shouts Danny
The two look outside to see the ghost boy flying through the air happily, doing somersaults and loop-de-loops in the air.
"How did he do?" asks Valerie again.
Fenton Household
"97%!" shouts Jack.
"Oh honey, we are so proud!" says Maddie, as she hugs Danny.
"Ack, thanks." Danny wheezes.
"You know what this calls for?" asks Jack.
Later that night...
"PARTY!" shouts Jack.
"Why did you wait til now to say that?" asks Jazz.
"I don't know. Well if you kids need me, I'll be in the lab with your mother." he says before entering the lab.
DING DONG!
Danny opens the door and Tucker and Sam are there. Tucker has his arms full of video games and movies, while Sam has some chips, snacks, and chocolate fountain.
"Hey guys." welcomes Danny.
"Hey Danny." reply the two. Tucker walks to the couch and drops the pile onto the couch while Danny helps Sam with the refreshments.
"Too much?" asks Sam.
"A little." Danny gunts as he heaves the fountain into the house.
"Yeah, I thought it would be a good distraction."
"Distraction?"
"So Tucker doesn't ruin the night." she answers smiling.
"Suddenly I love having chocolate fountains." Danny was about to close the door when someone put their foot in the way. Danny opens the door to find Valerie there.
"Val?" says Danny.
"Hey, I just thought I'd come over and say congrats on the test." tells Valerie.
"Um thanks."
"Danny, you coming? We're about to start the movie." Sam reminds.
"Oh, well I should probably get going." says Valerie. Half way gone, Danny starts to feel bad.
"Wait! Ugh, Sam's gonna kill for this, but do you want to hang out with us?" invites Danny.
"I'd love too." she answers. Inside, Sam is getting annoyed.
"Ooooooh, someone's jealous." mocks Tucker. Then Sam shoves a chocolate bar into his mouth.
The rest of the night was a blast. Even with Valerie and Dani joining the party, they had a good time. Danny and Valerie beat Tucker and Sam in a video game tournament, they loved watching the movies Tucker brought, and during one movie, Valerie grabbed Danny when she got scared, making Sam very jealous.
By 9:00, they started watching the new Terminatra movie Sam bought before it was even released.
BANG! BOOM! PEW!
The movie gets interrupted when they hear noises from the lab.
"Seriously, they're testing experiments now?" Dani says.
"I'll tell them to try and be more quiet." says Danny. He goes to the door and opens to tell his parents to be quiet.
"Hey guys, we're trying to watch a movie, can you-"
BAM!
Danny gets whacked into the wall after a big punch. A huge being comes out, wiping his hands on the wall.
"Sorry. Our invites must have gotten lost, whelp." says Skulker. He and more ghosts come out of the door like Ember, Desiree, Youngblood, and others enter.
"Hey, no party crashers!" quips Valerie, as her suit starts to form around her.
"This is going to be fun. Youngblood! Spectra! Take care of the sidekicks. Johnny! Lunch Lady! Distract the ghost boy. Desiree! You're with me and get the girl!" Skulker shouts.
He rushes and slams Valerie as he turns intangible and they both go through the wall.
"Valerie!" shouts Danny.
"Oh, don't worry. We're fine, thanks for asking." says Sam sarcastically.
"Now's not the time."
The Lunch Lady raises her hand and the chocolate fountain starts to shoot like a geyser and sends Danny into the kitchen. She and Johnny follow after him, as Youngblood's hook changes into a cannon and starts firing cannonballs at Tucker. Sam jumps to the side, where she sees Spectra floating above her.
"Wow, she seems nice." comments Spectra.
"Who?" asks Sam.
"Valerie. She and the ghost boy seem to make a cute couple. Even cuter than you did with him."
"No they don't!" she yells, as Spectra starts to feed off her emotions.
While everyone else is being attacked, Jazz watches from the stairs and sneaks down into the lab. At the base she sees Jack and Maddie trapped in the glass case Jack used to test the his ghost serum that saved Dani. Lucky for her, it is being guarded by the only ghost not fighting: The Box Ghost.
"Ha ha ha! Scream all you want fools! The Box Ghost has you trapped, and no one can save you." he shouts.
"No one but me." says Jazz.
"Hah, no mere girl can defeat the Box Girl."
"Are you kidding, you get beat up by girls, mere or not mere. I've checked your profile."
"You will pay for your impudence! As soon as I find a box."
"You mean like this?" she asks, holding a cardboard box.
"YES! Give it here!"
"Nope, go fetch!" she says. She opens the Ghost Portal and the Box Ghost goes in after it. She closes it as soon as he leaves. She then walks over and frees her trapped parents.
"Oh thank you Jazz. They've had us in there for hours!" says Jack.
"It's been 3 mintues dear." reminds Maddie.
"Oh."
"Yeah, you might want to help Danny. He's in a little trouble." warns Jazz.
With that, the parents smile wickedly as they grab their weapons. Meanwhile. Danny turns into Danny Phantom and is dealing with both Lunch Lady and Johnny 13's Shadow.
"Prepare for your just desserts!" yells the Lunch Lady. While Shadow holds Danny down she tries to summon the kitchen appliances. Nothing happens.
"Sorry to burst your bubble, but everything here is mostly broken. Except for that soup thermos. Oops." reveals Danny.
She maniacally stares at the thermos and moves it towards her. Luckily, Danny catches her off guard and blasts an ecto-ray at it, uncapping it and sucking her, Johnny, and the Shadow into the well-known Fenton thermos. Danny gets up and quickly recaps it.
"Yeesh, you'd think after all these years they would know what the Fenton thermos looks like."
By now, Jack and Maddie have gotten out of the lab, armed with tons of weapons.
"Hi son. You don't if we join the party do you?" says Jack.
"Nope. Be my guest." replies Danny.
They head into the living room and start blasting away.
"AAAAAHHHHHHHHH!"
Danny recognizes Valerie screaming, so he phases through the wall and flies off to help her.
Meanwhile, Jack and Maddie are having the time of their lives. Maddie blasted Ember and knocked out Hotep-Ra, while Jack dealt with Kitty and Spectra, who gets caught ff guard while draining Sam.
"Hands off the goth girl!" shouts Jack, attacking her with the Jack o' nine tails. She gets slammed into the wall, but she just gets mad and turns into her shadow form.
"Oh, so you must be the wife? Normally I don't hit expected mothers but I'll make an exception." mocks Spectra.
"HEY! I'm the dad and we aren't expecting anything." he replies.
"Good to hear." She surprises Jack by giving him a roundhouse kick to the face. She continues to attack by punching and clawing at him.
"Lay off the fudge and you might be more of a challenge. Oh wait, you still wouldn't be much of a -"
FWAM!
Jack slams her into the wall.
"I may be a little... big, but there are two thing I can do that you can't." He grabs her by the tail and slams her into the ground. "One, I'm immune to fat jokes, I've been teased so much it just bounces off of me." He then jumps and piledrives her while she is dazed.
"And two, at least I can't get sucked into this." he takes out the Fenton thermos and sucks her into it. His moment is ruined by Youngblood's cannon balls. Since adults can't see Youngblood, Maddie and Jack are as blind as bats.
"Where the heck is that ghost?" Jack wonders.
"I think maybe we should focus on saving our son's girlfiend." suggests Maddie. The two grab Sam and head for cover, as Youngblood gloats at them.
"Hah, you should stick to fighting someone your own size- uh what's the word?" he asks his parrot.
"Matey." responds the parrot.
"Oh yeah. Matey!"
"Will I do?" asks Dani, who is in her ghost form and grabs Youngblood by his shirt.
"Aww, poop-deck." he wines.
"Yo-ho-ho, and a fist full of pain." Dani says before punching him in the face. While the two ghost kids fight, is having a hard time getting to Valerie due to the fact that Bertrand is in the form of a pteradactyl in the sky.
"Why can't you be like the other dinosaurs and go extinct!" yells Danny, as he starts blasting the ghost. While he deals with Spectra's assistant, Valerie is trying to stave off Desiree and Skulker on the roof tops.
"Don't you creeps ever take a break?" asks Valeire, while shooting at Skulker.
"Sorry, but the hunt never takes a break." threatens Skulker.
She quickly dodges a blast from Desiree. Valerie does a back flip and tries firing at Desiree, but she dodges them and turns her arms into a lasso and wraps Valerie so she can't move. Valerie just stays still has 3 cubes pop out of no where and start blasting the genie. Valerie frees herself and activates her hover board. Skulker watches disappointedly at the scene.
"*Groan* I wish she could just- Wait a minute, why didn't I think of this before! Desiree, I wish that the huntress is made immobile and that she can't activate her weapons for the next 3 minutes." wishes Skulker.
"Finally, a wish that I can grant that I actually like." Desiree responds. She waves her hands and Valerie stops cold in her tracks, unable to move a muscle.
"Now that's much better." comments Skulker. He activates the PDA on his arm and a small connector pops out, which he inserts into Valerie's suit. As he punches in the code, Danny sees this and decides to speed up the fight.
"Hey bird-brain! If you like the past so much, how about some ice rage!" Danny jokes. Using his ice powers, Danny freezes Bertrand, inabling him to fly. He crashes into the street into the pieces. Danny watches as the shae shifter reforms back into a green blobby ghost. Bertrand growls out Danny, but the halfa just replies by sucking him up into the Fenton thermos. After recapping the thermos, Danny returns his focus to Valerie.
"Leave her alone!" shouts Danny.
Skulker notices him and smiles happily as the PDA showed that the codes are a success. Valerie starts to glow in a green light.
"No!" shouts Danny.
"YES!" says Skulker. "You're too late ghost boy. The suit is fully activated. Say goodbye to your friend." Skulker gloats.
Danny looks at Valerie as she starts groaning with pain, free to move with her hands clutching her head in pain. He just gets angrier and angrier as he watches Skulker laugh and Valerie suffer, until-
"RARGHHHHHHHH!"
Danny flies straight towards Skulker and slams into the nearest roof-top and starts beating the ghost senseless. He kept punching Skulker even as his hands start glowing and his punches start tearing Skulker's suit apart.
He jumps back as Skulker weakly rises, wires revealing but Danny is till enraged. He puts his hands together and fires a ray big enough to almost destroy the Fenton RV right at Skulker. The shot completely obliterates Skulker's suit and leaves nothing but Skulker's actual form.
"Whoa kid, take it easy." Skulker begs.
Danny replies with one more attack. He takes a deep breath and releases a ghostly wail. Sending Skulker flying about a mile or two. Desiree flees as fast as she can while Danny is panting from the experience. All is silent, except an unknown beeping. Danny turns to find Valerie passed, with a message flashing on her mask. It reads "ACTIVATION COMPLETE. SUIT IN FULL CONTROLL."
"Oh no." says Danny.
End of Chapter 3
Looks like things are getting interesting. Don't worry, Valerie's fine. Well, at least she's alive. Please review, and make sure to check out my other stories and my poll. May be awhile till I update, since I'm working on another story.
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