A/N: Alright, I don't really know how the whole replacing chapters thing works, but I decided to replace a chapter, this chapter in fact. As I started writing more, I totally changed the upcoming plot, so I had to go back and change some of the references that I left in this chapter. Namely, the part when Skulker comes. Otherwise, it's pretty much the same.

So, here's the long awaited press conference, again, and I hope you all enjoy the new twist!

Chapter Four
The Most Brutal Battle

If Danny thought there were a lot of flashes during Jazz's introduction, it was nothing compared to the amount he faced. He could feel the excitement from the crowd as they saw Danny in a new light. He looked around at all the faces as he tried to gain his bearings. They all had a different look: some of adoration, some of repulsion, some of disbelief, some of confusion. He looked into the front row and found the only faces that mattered smiling up at him, encouraging him. He smiled back and then faced forwards.

"Good morning. I'm Danny Fenton, or as more of you probably know me, Danny Phantom. And, just to get it out of the way," he stated as he stepped out from behind the podium and went ghost. Almost the entire audience gasped as one as the white rings formed around his waist and traveled up and down his body, changing his Sunday best to a black and white jumpsuit, his raven hair to snow white, and his icy blue eyes to glowing green. Then white rings formed around him again as he turned back to his human form and stepped behind the podium again. "Now, my intro won't be as eloquent or formal as my sisters, but what can you expect; I'm only fourteen. At first I wasn't going to have an introduction and just get right into the questions, but I decided against it only moments ago, so I'm kinda making this up as I go. I just wanted to let you know that I am thankful you all came, even though I've been dreading this all night and didn't get any sleep whatsoever do to my unending amount of nerves. But, I figured this would be the best way to lay everything out in the open so we can all start on a level field.

"Alright, so let's get the basics out of the way. I'm Danny Fenton, my parents are ghost hunters Jack and Maddie Fenton, and I'm a freshman at Casper High. I have a loving and supportive sister Jazz and two best friends Tucker and Sam whom I've known since kindergarten.

"As most of you may know, my parents are extremely gifted and brilliant scientists who devote their time and energy to ghost hunting and research. Well, one day I decided to poke around our downstairs lab and got in a little accident. The students at Casper High will remember it as the week I was out of school a little over seven months ago. After that lab accident, Tucker, Sam, and I discovered that I had ghost powers. We were unsure of what to do at first, but telling anyone was out of the question, so we kept it a secret. Then about a week later ghosts started emerging from the ghost portal in our lab. We realized I needed to use my ghost abilities to stop the ghosts, and thus Danny Phantom was born.

"So, to ask the question you're all thinking, am I really a ghost? Well, not in the way you think. I'm only half ghost, which is why I can change between the two forms. So technically right now, as I stand before you, I could honestly say that I'm not a ghost, but I can't necessarily say that I'm human either.

"So, I think that's enough of me talking. Knowing how these things work on television someone will probably ask questions I just gave the answers for, but oh well. So, I guess I'd like to ask if anyone has any questions."

Danny noticed that almost everyone raised their hand, everyone except the seven people in the front row. He was expecting this. He had hoped he'd get enough of the questions out of the way with his little intro, but obviously not enough. The hard part was choosing who. He figured he'd go with a news station, since they'd probably ask the more important questions.

"Um…how about Channel 6," he said pointing.

The reporter stood up. "Mr. Fenton, or would you prefer Mr. Phantom?" she asked. Danny noticed that Dash and his fellow jocks were snickering.

"Just Danny's fine."

"Alright. So Danny, did you die in the lab accident that caused your transformation?"

"Well, the theory stands from my parents that I half died, so I guess."

Danny pointed to another reporter. "Did your parents know you are half ghost?"

"No. I never told anyone."

"How do your friends and sister know then?"

"My friends were there when it happened and my sister found out on her own."

He pointed to yet another reporter. "Exactly what happened to give you ghost powers? What kind of lab accident are we talking about?"

"I'd rather not say. My parents and I have decided to keep that classified." He heard moans of disapproval from the audience but he silenced them by pointing to another reporter.

"Are you a good ghost or a bad ghost?"

Here it was, the chance for Danny to clear his name. "I like to think of myself as a good ghost, since I sacrifice not only my grades and my sleep but the time I could use to hang out with my friends and family to fight ghosts on a nightly basis. Just ask my sister, she knows better than anyone that I hardly sleep and I come home injured almost every night. I fight to keep a C average in school because I can never do homework or study. You'd think that having two of the most brilliant scientists for parents and a genius for a sister would pass on to me and guarantee me a good grade, but I never get the chance to find out because I don't have the time. I give so much of my human life to protect this town from ghost invasions, so I think I deserve the title of being a good ghost."

He heard a lot of applause after he finished his statement and felt glad. At least a large group of people believed him, and that was enough for him.

"But if you're such a good ghost that sacrifices everything for the protection of Amity Park, then why do you consistently destroy the town and attack its citizens?"

"Alright, the destruction of the town really isn't a fair one to pin on me. I'm not a perfect aim and I do miss sometimes, and I can't really control what I get thrown into. If I had it my way I wouldn't get thrown into anything. Destruction of the city and saving the day kinda go hand in hand. And if you're referring to the incident with the Mayor, I'd like to state once and for all that the Mayor was at that time being overshadowed by a ghost enemy of mine who wanted to ruin my life by framing me. I would never hurt an innocent person. Besides, if I was a bad ghost and wanted to hurt the town, why would I spend all my time fighting ghosts and making enemies in the Ghost Zone? Wouldn't I want to let the ghosts run free or even help them destroy the town instead of risking my neck to fight them?"

He saw a lot of people nodding their heads in agreement as they finally started to understand. He pointed to another reporter.

"Danny, do you know who that red-suited ghost hunter is that always fights you?"

Danny didn't even glance towards Valerie. He knew that she probably looked worried, but he didn't want to give the press any hint by looking over at her. He'd look over some other time; right now he was keeping his gaze on the reporter who asked the question.

"No, I don't. I just hope that after today she'll realize that I'm not a bad ghost and thus will stop hunting me. I'd like to take this moment to say that even though she thinks I ruined her life, it wasn't really my fault and that it was another ghost that I was trying to stop. And that's all I'm going to say on the issue." He heard more groans from the reporters, but he didn't care.

"So does that mean that she's in this room?" the reporter asked, looking around.

"I don't know who she is, so how can I very well know whether she's here or not? She could be in here or she could be watching by television. Either way, I hope she gets the message."

He pointed to another person, this time someone who lived in Amity. He thought he saw her working at the Nasty Burger once or twice. "Danny, what are you going to do after this press conference?"

"Hopefully go home reporter free and go back to regular life, or as regular as it can be for me. I really don't intend on doing anything drastic like quitting school or anything like that. I just want everything to go back the way it was before I was caught on camera."

"If you could go back in time and prevent yourself from being exposed, would you?" another reporter asked.

"Of course I would. There was a reason I wanted to keep it a secret in the first place."

"But do you realize what this means for people across the globe? You are living proof that ghosts exist!"

"Yeah, and so are all the other ghosts I fight. I didn't need to be exposed to prove that ghosts were real," he stated, getting a bit short. Then he pointed to another reporter to get her to shut up.

"What kind of ghost powers do you have?"

"I'm not going to list them all off. I'm sure most of you have seen them anyways."

"Are you still learning more powers?"

"Constantly."

"How fast can you fly?"

Danny knew this was going to start. Now they'll start asking him to pretty much brag in front of the camera, which is what he was looking forward to the least.

"The last time we clocked it I was at about 173 mph." He heard some whistles from the crowd.

Another reporter stood up. "Do you check your powers often?"

"Occasionally, just to test things to see how well they work."

Another reporter stood up, as all the rules Jazz had laid out earlier about Danny calling on people disappeared. "What did you mean by overshadowing?"

"Taking over a person's body and controlling what they do or say."

"And can you do that?"

"Yes, but I don't like to."

"How much can you lift?"

"How far can you fly before getting tired?"

"Do you have to eat as a ghost?"

"Does your heart still beat?"

The questions started coming at him like crazy. He started to feel overwhelmed. Finally, Jazz stood up and marched onto the stage and stood behind the podium.

"Excuse me! Excuse me!" she yelled, trying to grab everyone's attention, but to no avail. "Everybody shut up!" she yelled and immediately everyone stopped talking. "There, that's better. Only one of you may ask a question at a time and you may only ask it when Danny points to you! If this happens again, the conference is over!" She smiled at Danny and then walked back to her seat.

"Alright, to answer all the questions in one big statement. I don't really know how much I can lift, but it's a lot. I don't know how far I can fly since I've never really tried. No, I don't have to eat as a ghost and I really don't like to. Yes, my heart still beats but not when I'm a ghost. No, I don't have to breathe as a ghost, no it's not hard to go intangible or invisible, yes I can turn other things intangible or invisible with me, yes ghost shields hurt, and no ecto-blasts do not have an automatic aim. Does that answer everyone's questions about my powers?" He took the stunned silence as a yes. But just as he was about to move on, he saw a little five year old girl in a wheelchair raise her hand timidly.

"Yes, the little girl. What's your name?"

"Alice."

"Well hello Alice, do you have a question for me?"

She nodded her head. "Can you go invisdible or intangidible right now?"

If it were any other person, Danny would have refused, but as he looked at her he felt kind of sad for her, so he nodded his head in agreement and a large smiled graced her face. He smiled back as he turned invisible and disappeared from sight. He heard her gasp in awe with a smile on her face and looked pleased to not only see that she was happy, but that Dash and his friends looked dumbfounded. He was sure that hearing him be Danny Phantom was one thing, but seeing him actually use his powers was totally different. Danny then reappeared and then turned intangible, earning more gasps and looks of shock as he walked straight through the podium.

"Alright, anymore questions about my powers?" he asked as he walked around to the other side of the podium. "No? Alright then, on to something new."

"How many ghosts would you say you fight a day?"

"At least one, sometimes two."

"And they just keep coming back?"

"Yeah. Since ghost's can't die, the only way they can be stopped is by trapping them in the Fenton Thermos and then putting them back into the Ghost Zone, but they can come out again just as easily, so it's a never ending battle."

"So if ghosts can't die, then does that mean you can't die either?"

"I don't know. I'm not fully ghost, so I don't know. Our theory is that I'll turn full ghost, but even that we don't know, and I'm not really keen on trying it out either."

"What is this Ghost Zone? You've mentioned it twice."

"Oh, sorry. It's pretty much another dimension where the ghosts live and belong. That's why I try to return as many ghosts as I can back, but they just want to stay on Earth. I guess old habits die hard."

"Who is the most annoying ghost you've ever fought?"

"The Box Ghost, no question. He shows up the most."

"What about the worst ghost you've ever fought?"

"I don't know. I've fought some pretty hard ones, but I'd have to say Pariah Dark and the Fright Night. They're probably the most challenging." In reality Vlad should be on the list, but he knew Vlad was watching the TV and he didn't want to give him the satisfaction of making him think that he was a difficult bad guy.

"Now aren't ghosts supposed to be naturally malevolent?" the Discovery Channel reporter asked.

"Yes. They become angry due to their unfinished business or the fact that they were ripped from their bodies and stuck in the Ghost Zone." He noticed his parents smiling happily at each other upon hearing his response, proud of him for actually listening to their explanations of ghosts.

"So what makes you a good ghost then?"

"Well, I'm not fully ghost, so I still have my human emotions and sense of right and wrong."

"If you could go back in time before the lab accident and not become half ghost, would you?"

"I…never really thought about it. I don't know, and I really don't want to answer that."

"Well, wouldn't the answer be simple? I mean, why wouldn't you want ghost powers?"

"Because of the bad publicity," Danny answered smartly. Danny didn't really want to tell them that the reason he would refrain from doing it would be to just be normal again and not have to worry about hunting ghosts and having to deal with the press. He could just be normal Danny Fenton.

But, unknown to the press, Danny did get a chance to do it all over again. At one point a ghost named Desiree granted Sam's wish that Danny and Sam had never met, and since Sam convinced him to go into the ghost portal, he never had powers. But, in the end, he chose to go back into the portal to become Danny Phantom.

The sound of a citizen of Amity shook him out of his thoughts. "Danny, have you ever seen Elvis?"

Danny started laughing along with some of the other people in the crowd. "No, I've never met Elvis, or any other dead, or supposedly dead, celebrity."

"Danny, do you…" but the reporter was cut off by Danny's ghost sense.

"Oh man, not here!" he moaned as Skulker flew into the room. People in the audience screamed as he made his appearance and cameras started flashing like mad as they turned onto him. Even though people were scared, none of them dared to leave. They wanted to watch the action. Skulker looked shocked and a little nervous as all he saw were white lights flashing towards him but he finally regained his bearings.

"Ghost Child, I bring a message."

"From who?" Danny asked puzzled as the cameras turned towards him. From Plasmius? Was this going to be some angry complaint about letting his secret out? Well, Plasmius could go suck a cheese-head for all he cared, it's not like he asked for this.

"I have been asked not to say," Skulker stated as the cameras turned towards him. Danny knew he wouldn't, but it was worth a shot anyways. "But, I have come to tell you that your torment is just beginning."

"My 'torment is just the beginning', what's that supposed to mean?" Danny asked as he thought in silence, surprised that Skulker was just sitting there, like he wasn't supposed to attack him until he figured it out. Whoever this mystery ghost was wanted Danny to figure it out for himself, in front of everyone. But how would a ghost know about this conference, or that his secret was blown in the first place? They didn't get this kind of news in the Ghost Zone. He thought of Vlad, but he quickly shot that theory down. Vlad wouldn't want to reveal Danny's secret because he could just flip around and reveal his. So how else did this ghost know, unless… "This ghost that sent you, he's the one that tipped off the reporter! That's how he knew exactly where to place the mike and the camera, and that's how he knew I'd be here!"

"He also said to offer his congratulations for figuring it out, as he knew you would. Although, I must say you figured it out much earlier than I would have supposed. Well done Ghost Child. Now to collect my reward for delivering this message."

"Yeah yeah, you'll kill me so my pelt will lie at the foot of your bed," Danny remarked as he went ghost, as the audience gasped again. "Oh give it a rest will you?" Danny asked exasperated at the crowd. "You all knew that was going to happen so you shouldn't really be surprised anymore!"

Danny flew up into the air and started blasting ecto-blasts at Skulker as he dodged the ones Skulker threw back, trying to steer clear of as many people as possible. Danny turned sharply and flew towards Skulker, hitting him in the chest which sent him sailing through the wall.

"Tucker, thermos!" Danny demanded as he looked behind him at Tucker.

"I don't have one!" Tucker shouted back as Skulker emerged through the wall again. Danny cupped both his hands together and sent a large ecto-blast at him, sending him into the wall, triggering more gasps from the audience.

"What?" Danny yelled.

"I don't have one!"

"You don't have one? Why not?"

"I didn't think you'd be fighting any ghosts today."

"When am I not fighting any ghosts?" Danny asked sarcastically. "Sam?" She shook her head.

"Jazz?" She shook her head as well. While Danny was occupied with trying to find a thermos, Skulker shot an ecto-blast at Danny which sent him down to the ground in front of his family. The audience gasped as one.

"So none of us brought a thermos?" he asked them as Skulker flew up over Danny, pointing the gun at him.

"Sorry Danny, but no," Tucker apologized.

"At last Ghost Child, you're mine," Skulker claimed triumphantly as he charged up his gun and shot it at Danny. Danny created an ecto-dome, encircling him, his family, and anyone near them inside it.

Danny stood up, his hands still glowing and in front of him as he kept the shield up. Skulker meanwhile continuously tried to get through it by shooting beams at it or kicking it with his foot, and each time he did Danny flinched from the increase in energy it took for him too keep the shield up while Skulker made contact with it.

"Tucker, it was your turn to be in charge of the Thermos," Danny reprimanded.

"Sorry, I seriously didn't think we'd have to deal with any ghosts right now," he apologized.

"Alright, we're going to need to go to Operation Purple-Backed Gorilla then. Got it Tucker?"

"Already on it," he stated proudly, pulling out his PDA.

Skulker saw the PDA and started hammering the dome even harder with everything he had. Then he heard the familiar tone of the William Tell Overture and he looked at the PDA strapped to his arm. "Do the Macarena on stage," he read. "You've got to be kidding me."

His ecto-skeleton pulled him onto stage and started forcing him to do the Macarena as the audience laughed and the camera men filmed.

After a few rounds Danny looked at Tucker. "Alright, now how about for the real Operation Purple-Backed Gorilla?"

"Gotcha." Tucker typed another command into his PDA and sent it to the one attached to Skulker's arm. The William Tell Overture sounded again as Skulker looked at his arm again.

"Fly to the Ghost Zone and take a nap? Oh come on!" he moaned as his jet packs fired up and he flew through the ceiling.

Danny put his hands down as the dome around them disappeared. He almost collapsed to the floor from lack of energy before Jazz caught him. He was exhausted from keeping a dome that large up for that long, especially with Skulker hammering at it with all he had. He smiled his thanks to Jazz and flew back up on stage to thunderous applause from the audience. The white rings traveled up and down his body, transforming him back to human as he stood behind the podium again, leaning on it slightly for support.

"Alright, sorry about that."

"Who was that?"

"That was Skulker, or as he says it, 'The Mighty Skulker: The Ghost Zone's Greatest Hunter'," Danny mocked as he made the quotation mark symbols with his fingers. "He collects rare and unusual ghosts for his collection. He used to want me to be a part of it as well, but now he just wants my 'pelt' to decorate his house." The audience looked somewhat revolted. "Yeah, that's my thought too."

"But why did he do the Macarena?"

"Because we told him to. When we first met him, he found Tucker's PDA and decided to use it to upgrade his ecto-skeleton. Well, we found out that he had to obey the schedule that was programmed into the PDA, so Tucker found a way to hack into Skulker's PDA and program other things into it, like doing the Macarena or going back to the Ghost Zone for a nap."

"Does that dome-thing take up a lot of energy?"

"It takes up a decent amount, yeah. I don't use it that often and when I do it's definitely not that big, so was kinda tiring, especially with Skulker continuing to hit it all the time."

"Do Tucker, Sam, and Jazz help you often?"

"Constantly. They're always there to help me when I need it."

"But aren't you afraid for their safety?"

"Of course, but they just won't stay away, so we just gave up trying."

At that point Sam stood up and marched over to the microphone. "Sorry Danny, but I have to say something. Hi, I'm Sam Manson. If any of you have a problem with Tucker and me helping Danny out, then I suggest you get over it. Tucker and I will always be there for Danny and we know that he'll always be there for us. We know that he'd never let anything bad happen to us and he never has. So, get over it. Danny is not doing anything wrong by allowing us to help him. Got it?"

Sam smiled at Danny and walked off the stage, giving her parents an evil look as she sat down next to Tucker.

"Was that directed towards the whole audience or mostly your parents?" Danny heard Tucker ask.

"Mostly my parents."

Danny continued answering questions for a few more hours before the press finally couldn't dish out any more questions. Danny wanted to call it quits way earlier, but he didn't want them coming to the house with another question they forgot to ask. Finally, Danny didn't see another hand in the air.

"Does this mean there are no more questions?" he asked hopefully. Silence echoed throughout the room as Danny scanned it with joyful eyes.

"Danny! Will you go out with me!" he heard a familiar latino voice yell. He directed his eyes towards the sound and noticed Paulina standing up, looking excited. "You know I've always loved you!"

"Me or Danny Phantom?" he asked bitterly as he noticed police men walking down the isle towards her.

"I've loved you both! I could never admit my feelings for you before Danny, but we're meant to be together!" she shouted back, her voice high pitched and her eyes shining in glory that he was actually looking at her, actually talking to her, however cruel.

Finally the police made it to her isle and she looked at them in anger and hatred. They were going to pull her away from her one and only love, her Danny.

"No, no! You can't do this! Danny, make them stop! You know we want to be together, you know it!" she yelled as they dragged her down the main isle. "I know you've always had a crush on me! You've loved me since the moment you laid eyes on me!"

"Sorry Paulina, but ship has sailed, once I realized what a shallow and arrogant jerk you really are."

Paulina looked at him in shock as she was being pulled out the door. "You don't mean that!" she yelled as she managed to peak her head into the doorframe before the police yanked it back. "I know you don't! You're just shocked, you're..." but her rants were cut off by the shut doors as two new cops stood next to it, daring another fan-girl to so much as move.

"Alright...that was interesting. I'm almost afraid to ask this, but does anyone else have any more questions?" When no one else raised their hand, Danny immediately felt a rush of joy and energy. "Sweet!" he yelled. "Alright, conference dismissed, or however you end one of these things."

People started leaving out the door, happy to finally be able to go home while even more people started flocking towards the stage. Jazz leapt onto the stage and gave her brother a hug.

"Jazz," he moaned.

"I'm so proud of you! You did brilliant!"

"Thanks Jazz."

"Oh Danny! We're so proud of you!" his mother gushed as she ran over to him and gave him a big hug and a kiss on the forehead.

"Good job son, I knew you could do it," Jack complimented as he lifted Danny into a rib-cracking hug.

"Uh, Dad…human right now…need to breathe," Danny gasped.

"Sorry son," he apologized, letting Danny go.

"Well done Mr. Fenton," Mr. Lancer congratulated, shaking his hand. "I think this merits an exempt on the upcoming public speaking assignment."

"Thanks Mr. Lancer!" Danny thanked excitedly.

"My pleasure. Will you be at school Monday?"

"Yes he will," Maddie answered.

"Well then, I'll see you then."

Then Tucker and Sam ran up to him, each giving him a hug and congratulating him as well for a job well done as the security guards started hauling all the fan girls away. Now the auditorium looked really empty except for a few stragglers.

"Hey guys, will you excuse me please? There are some things I need to take care of," Danny asked as he spotted a woman wheeling an excited Alice out into the isle.

Danny went invisible and flew to into the isle Alice was coming out of and then reappeared in front of her.

"Boo," he said jokingly as Alice laughed. He looked up at the woman pushing her who looked a little startled at his sudden appearance. "Hi, I'm Danny Fenton," he greeted as he extended his hand "but you already knew that I'm sure." She took it and smiled at him.

"I'm Susan Waters and this is my husband Chris," she introduced, indicating the man following behind her.

"Pleasure to meet you sir," Danny greeted as he extended a hand to Chris.

"Pleasure's all mine," Chris returned as he shook his hand.

"Listen, I'm sorry for Alice's question. If…" Susan began to apologize.

"Oh, don't worry about it. It was going to come from someone, so it might as well have been from someone as cute as her." Both of them just smiled.

"Susan, I wanna drink of water!" Alice requested.

"Alright. Excuse us for a moment," Susan stated as she pushed Alice over to the nearby drinking fountain.

"Susan? Aren't you her parents?" Danny asked confused.

"No, unfortunately we're not. Alice's parents died in a car accident when she was only two and she became paralyzed from the hip down," Chris answered as he watched Susan help Alice get a drink. "You see, Susan and I work at the orphanage down the street for disabled and handicapped children. After she was out of the hospital, she came to live with us. There are about ten other children there, and we have another two associates who live with us to help," Chris continued.

"Wow. That's really sad," Danny stated.

"Yes. That's why when Alice said she wanted to see you, we just had to take her."

"Would you mind if I took Alice on a little trip with me?" Danny asked. "It won't be very long, only a couple of minutes."

"Of course."

Danny walked over to Susan and Alice as Chris followed behind him. He knelt down to Alice's height. "Alice, would you like to go on a trip with me?"

Her face brightened up. "Can I, can I?"

"Chris already said it was alright."

"Yay!" she cheered as Danny smiled. The white rings formed around his waste as he turned into his ghost self and smiled at the look of awe on her face.

"Alright, I'm warning you, I'm very cold. You see my friends over there on the stage?" he asked as she nodded. "Well, they always complain how cold I am when we go on a trip, so I'm just warning you, okay?"

"Okay."

He lifted her out of the wheelchair and cradled her in his arms. He felt her shiver.

"You alright?" he asked. "I felt you shiver."

"You're just cold!" she stated and then started laughing. Danny started laughing too.

"Alright, are you ready?" he asked.

"Yeah!"

"Don't be afraid, okay? Nothing's going to happen to you."

"Okay."

"Alright, here we go!" He turned both of them intangible and they flew through the roof in to the dusk.

Both Susan and Chris started to tear as they saw how happy Alice was. "I hope no one ever says another bad thing about that boy," Chris stated. "He may be a ghost, but he's got a heart of gold."

From the shadows in the assembly room, Valerie watched with confusion at the scene that just took place.

"Let's go higher!" Alice squealed as Danny flew them around Amity. Danny obeyed and climbed upwards, feeling joy at hearing Alice's squeal of delight.

"Danny, this is so much fun. Thank you."

"You're quite welcome. You know, you're probably the cutest little girl I've ever met."

She giggled. "Can we go faster?"

"Can we go faster?" he asked in a mocking voice. "Of course we can, hang on!" Danny started building up speed as the zoomed through the sunset sky over Amity, Alice squealing the entire time.

Finally, their joyride was over and Danny returned her back to her caretakers. He set her in her wheelchair and turned back to human form. He looked up at Chris and Susan and saw that they had tears in their eyes.

"Thank you so much Danny," Susan thanked. "We've never seen Alice so happy."

"Yes thank you. I swear to you that if anyone ever says anything bad about you, they'll have me to answer to."

"Thank you sir, that means a lot to me."

"Danny!" Alice yelled as she frantically gestured for him to come closer. "I have a secret for you!"

"Oh really, what?" he asked as he leaned closer. She moved towards his ear and then changed direction and kissed him on the cheek.

"Haha, I got you too!" she squealed excitedly.

"It's a game she likes to play," Chris explained. Danny smiled.

"Alright Alice, I think that's enough for one day. Say good-bye to Danny," Susan stated.

"Bye Danny! Thanks for the ride! I'll miss you!" Alice shouted as he saw her little arm waving behind her retreating wheelchair.

"Bye Alice!" he waved back.

"And thank you again, for everything," Chris thanked as he placed his hand fondly on his shoulder and then followed after the others.

He stood there, watching them leave as he felt two warm hands on his shoulders. He turned around to find his mom and dad, tears in their eyes.

"We saw what you did Danny, and that was probably the nicest thing we've ever seen! We're so proud of you!"

"You know, I think that's the third time you've said that today."

They all laughed as they hugged him.

"Alright Fentons" Jack bellowed loudly "oh and Tucker and Sam of course" he added as an after thought "we're all going out for dinner, Danny's choice!"

"Sweet!" Danny shouted. "My choice huh? Well then, we're going…"

"To PF Changs," Tucker, Sam, and Jazz finished along with Danny. Danny looked around at them and they all started laughing. Then they headed towards the Fenton RV and headed off towards the restaurant.