Danny Phantom: The Dark Secret
Chapter 4: Thoughts
Danny just kept flying as fast as he could away from the house, away from the source of pain. It had been a powerful shock to learn that his parents had done such a terrible thing to the both of them for they had hidden it from him, kept him away from his sister the whole year that she was pregnant and only when they had done something to her mind did they consent to his coming back home.
He had thought Jazz was strange when he came home but he had quickly gotten used to the idea that it was just her hormones changing her and he never questioned it after that.
He had certainly found enough things to keep himself busy over the years but he couldn't help but feel that he had seriously let his sister down. He should have questioned his sister's abrupt change in behavior more when he had first noticed it but he had trusted his parents so much then. Not anymore.
Danny stops flying just outside the border of his town and turns back, looking back at it. He couldn't help but wonder if Jazz's son or daughter was somewhere out there. Could that kid have been one of the ones that he had saved from the many ghosts that he'd been fighting over the many years? It would be a cruel twist of irony if that was the case.
He wanted so badly to just fly off and never come back but he also knew one thing for certain that if he did that. He would always wonder what became of his family, his friends, and the lost child of Jazz.
As he continues to float there in the sky he wonders what his parents would say or what they would do if he went back right then and asked about Jazz and her child. Would Jazz herself have any answers?
The longer Danny floated in the sky, the more questions he had and the more frustrated he got.
Suddenly a computer hardware store glows a bright green and explodes from within all of the computers and other various things within came flying out of the explosion to start forming into the shape of a large man-like thing with colored wires hanging out from where the fingers and thumbs would be.
Danny frowns as he darkly says, "Technus, perfect! Now I can work off some of anger!" He fast and straight at Technus, arriving just in time for him to hear him start boasting, "At last! I, Technus have achieved the perfect and undefeatable form! So that not even that hero…"
Danny fires a powerful green blast from his hand, sending Technus down to the ground and into the already destroyed building.
Technus looks up from his position and shouts, "I should have known that was you! You always wreck my plans! No more! I have firewalls to protect me so I can't be hacked like before!"
Danny floats in the air, angrily saying, "Tonight was NOT a good night to show up Technus." To prove his point he powers up a powerful ball of green ghost energy in his hands and throws it at the chest area where Technus's face was.
Technus barely moves out of the way in time with half of his left arm exploding as it gets hit by the ball.
Technus steals more parts to regenerate the missing arm but he knew that Danny was not holding back on power like he normally would in one of their fights. He says, "What has crawled under your skin and made you so angry?"
Danny fires a series of powerful blasts from each of his hands, striking various parts of the walking hardware store and shouts, "I don't want to talk about it!"
Technus sees an opening and lashes out with the cable fingers, wrapping cables around Danny's arms and legs. He joyfully cries out, "Ah-ha! I have you now! You will now know the power of Technus as I…" He trails off as Danny uses his ice power to freeze the cables to the point where he can shatter the cords wrapped around him.
Technus complains loudly, "No fair! Those kind of cables do not come easily you know!" He swings his other hand at Danny to knock him out of the air and before he can connect Danny fires an ice blast that freezes up the joints and eventually covering him in solid ice.
Technus whines, "N-No fair! You used your ice powers on me!"
Danny punches his hand as he says, "I told you that I was in a bad mood and now you're going to find out why it is bad to ignore me."
Technus sees Danny taking a deep breath and says, "No! Not that!"
Danny did not listen as he lets out his most powerful attack, the ghostly wail. Waves of audio-powered ghost power that was far stronger than anything even Ember had done with her guitar without some sort of amplifiers.
Technus screams, "Noooooooooooo!" as the ice cracks rapidly and slides on the street from the sheer force behind the wail alone before the ice reaches that critical point where it and everything frozen shatters into tiny pieces no bigger than a microchip.
Sam and Tucker had seen the explosion from the window and ran towards it, knowing Danny would involve himself in it. They both arrived just in time to see Danny take down Technus and with the Fenton Thermos, Sam safely sucks in the shattered pieces of Technus before he could reform.
Tucker looks around at the mess and says, "Wow, you guys really made a big mess. Did he give you more trouble than usual Danny?"
Danny says, "No. The destruction was mostly because I was too angry to fight clearly."
Tucker takes another look around and sees that Technus's destruction didn't get much further than the store but Danny's damage was to windows, the street, and more. He then says, "Wow, they don't stand a chance against you when you're this angry."
Danny changes back to his human form and bitterly says, "Maybe not but even after kicking his butt I still don't feel any better."
Sam's heart reached out for Danny as she wanted to take him into her arms and just squeeze all the pain and suffering that he was enduring right out of him just to make him her usual happy Danny.
As much as Sam wanted to take all of Danny's pain out of him, she was also so very angry at Danny's parents for causing all of this to happen in the first place. So she says, "I know Danny and if there is anything I can do to help, you know all you need to do is just ask."
Danny isn't even looking at his two friends as he stands there with fists clenched as he says, "You can find out what happened to Jazz's baby." He then runs off towards his home.
Sam suddenly grabs Tucker by the front of the shirt and starts to walk in another direction as she says, "Come on Tucker, we have some work to do."
Tucker nearly stumbles over his feet as Sam drags him and says, "Do you think you that you could let go of me first?"
Sam angrily says, "When we get there."
Tucker says, "Uh… just where are we going Sam?"
Sam continues to drag him another block before she stops, letting go of him abruptly which causes Tucker to fall down.
Tucker gets up, dusting himself off as he says, "Look Sam, I know you really want to help Danny. He's my best friend too so you don't need to force me anywhere."
Sam has her face covered by her hair as she remains silent, standing in the same spot that she had been when she let go of Tucker.
Tucker is oblivious to this as he says, "If you'd just told me where we were going. I could have started walking under my own power you know. I have two feet just like you do."
He finally starts to notice something is wrong by her silence. He approaches her from behind and says cautiously, "Sam? Uh… is everything ok?" He reaches out with a hand and very gently puts a hand on her left shoulder as he says again, "Sam?"
Sam quickly raises her head and looks at Tucker with tears already beginning to stream down her cheeks, "Why Tucker? Tell me why crap like this has to happen to Danny? I thought his family was actually… you know… really cool but then this happens!"
Tucker knew that he had to do something. Both his best friends were feeling hurt and while he had no answers for Sam, he knew that he had to do his best to comfort her because she was his friend and it sucked to see a girl crying, especially Sam.
Tucker awkwardly says, "Uh… I don't know Sam. I really wish I had the answers for you. I know that you have a crush…"
Sam slaps away Tucker's hand and shouts, "It is more than a crush Tucker! I… I… I love him! That's why this is so hard for me."
Tucker looks at Sam with his mouth hanging open, he had suspected that Sam might be falling in love with Danny but to actually hear her say it. It was a little bit mind blowing, well probably a little more so than Jazz having a love-child he supposed but still.
Tucker says, "Hey, I am happy for you Sam. Really I am, but you really could stand to work on your timing you know."
Sam growls in frustration at him, seeing that he was missing the point and angrily thinks, "Boys!" She says, "Don't you think I already know that? I love Danny Fenton and it is tearing me up to see him hurting so much!"
Tucker says, "I know, I know! Don't you think it is hurting me as well to see Danny and you suffering? But who knows what really happened to Jazz to get her pregnant?"
Sam's eyes go wide as she suddenly realizes something that she should have seen much sooner! She shouts, "That's it! There IS one more person who knows the truth behind what really happened to Jazz!"
Tucker looks at Sam with confusion and says, "Huh? Who?"
Sam says, "It takes two to have a baby Tucker, so all we have to do is find out who the father is!"
Tucker says, "What? And just how are we supposed to do that? We just barely learned about Jazz having a baby! We don't know who the father is, what happened to the baby or anything else!"
Sam says, "I now that but now know where to get started in our search for clues."
Tucker didn't understand any of that and says, "We can? How?"
Sam says, "Come on, we're going to hire a private detective."
Tucker grabs Sam and says, "Wait, I don't have that kind of money!"
Sam smiles at Tucker and says, "But I do, or did you forget that I'm very rich?"
Tucker blinks twice and then smiles as he says, "Lead on our little millionaire."
Sam frowns at him and says, "Don't call me that."
Tucker quickly says, "Gotcha Sam."
Together the two of them run off down the street, heading towards the one spot in town that had the only private eye in town.
AN: Well I hope you enjoyed this chapter. What did you think of the anguish by Danny and his friends? Danny really let Technus have it didn't he? Do you think Sam, even with all her money can find answers to a years old puzzle?
As usual all reviews, votes, thoughts, ideas, suggestions, feelings, and comical acting scenes are welcome.