Pamela
I was sitting in the train car cage with my husband thinking about what had happened.
I should have known this would happen to us. This is what I get for letting our little Sammie hang out with the son of the town's ghost hunters.
I sighed. I knew that no matter how hard Jeremy and I try, we can't stop her. I've seen it in her eyes. She has a crush on the Fenton boy. She had worn the dress she had fought against for MONTHS just to get us to lift the restraining order against the boy.
Jeremy sighed. I figured he was also thinking about our daughter who refused to act like a proper young lady. The only time she would was when she would blush at the thought of the Fenton boy.
I suddenly remembered something I had seen from the Fenton's R.V. when Sammie had been on this train to help Danny.
"He saved her." I whispered.
"Huh?" Jeremy asked.
"When Freakshow first came to Amity…Sammie had fallen off the train and Phan… Fen… Danny had saved her." I told him, unsure of just WHO Danny is now. Was he still Fenton or Phantom now?
Jeremy looked considerate. The shock of what had happened must be EXTREMELY hard on him for him to be so quiet.
Suddenly, in a flash of Lydia's tattoos, the kids appeared, Danny in his Phantom form
"Well, well. Look what the bats dragged in. with my reality gems" Freakshow said as he approached the kids.
Jeremy stood up and grabbed the bars of the cage. I wasn't far behind ready to do my own damage if that guy hurt my little Sammikins.
"I don't think so." Danny declared as he held on tight to a mechanical thermos. However, Lydia's tattoos got it and tied up the kids " Wha- Oh no"
Freakshow poured out the gems into his hand and placed them one by one into the gauntlet
"The gem of life, the gem of form. The Gem of fantasy. And put them with the power source and… thanks to you I now know how to activate the gauntlet"
He pushed the gems as buttons in a certain code while laughing
"Danny! Stop him!" Sam yelled desperately…as if she counted on him.
Danny struggled in the binds
"I can't break free!" he grunted
"Thanks to you. I am now Ringmaster of all reality!"
Reality started to change around us
"Neato huh?" he asked
Let 'em go, Freakshow. I brought you the gems. We had a deal!" Danny demanded.
I have to admit, I've never seen Danny so forceful.
"The deal was bring me the gems if you want to see them alive again. Well, here they are…alive…for now."
That liar.
The next thing I knew, I'm in a roller coaster car with Pam sitting directly behind Sam and Tucker. Also that along the ride, there's a Fire-breathing clown head that pops up like a Jack-in-the-Box, rock hammers, and the end of the ride ski jumps into a tub of toxic waste.
Just our luck. I hate roller coasters. They mess up my hair.
Then, the ride starts and we all start screaming.
Suddenly, Freakshow's voice booms over a crowd.
"Ladies and Gentlemen. Freaks of all ages. May I direct your attention to the center ring where Danny Phantom, a.k.a. Danny Fenton will attempt to rescue his friends and family from a ghastly doom of my own construction"
Danny flew in front of the car before a yellow flash hit him and he turned into a jelly like material
"Hey! What did you…oh man"
The next thing I knew, that brownish jelly-like material went flying all over
"Only to be stopped at every turn by the master of all reality"
"Danny!" Sam shouted
She sounded as if all hope was lost.
"It can't be!" Tucker gasped
"No!" Jack Fenton shouted behind me.
I turned and saw that the Foleys, who were sitting behind us, were also watching the Fentons.
I had never seen Jack and Maddie Fenton look so upset. And from the looks on Jeremy's face, neither had he.
"Danny!" Maddie Fenton gasped before shouting as she tried to leave the moving car, "NOOO!"
Jack pulled his now sobbing wife back into the car and held her.
I turned to my stunned husband. It seemed as if we had been wrong about the Fentons. Even though they were married to each other AND their work, they still cared for their children.
I'm hating how life works. It took the death of one of their kids for us to see that. NOBODY deserves that.
I then noticed Jeremy looking at Sam. She looks near ready to burst into tears.
I think her crush might have grown to something a bit more.
"What's that? You want more?" Freakshow asked the crowd
"Yeah!"
"Well, since you insist, I'll give you more. MUCH more"
More reality changed
"It's all mine now. My revenge. Your nightmare. There. A kingdom fit for a freak. And a Freakdom fit for king!"
We turned another bank causing us all to scream
I then noticed the approaching fire-breathing clown.
The end was coming.
I reach forward and gripped my daughter's shoulder as Jeremy gripped my other hand. Sam looked back at me and placed her hand over mine.
I noticed her purple eyes have a wall of held-back tears in them. But at least she knew that I loved her.
And I can see that she, despite everything, in her own way, still loves us.
Suddenly, a green and white ecto-shield came between us and the fire. I noticed a black and white form between us and the shield.
It's Danny.
"Danny!" Jazz exclaimed
"He's alive!" Jack added happily
A smile of PURE happiness formed on Sam's face matching that of the Fenton's voices.
"He has ghost envy! Use psychology!" Jazz yelled at her brother.
"Psychology? That's it!" Danny exclaimed as he face brightened.
I think SOMEONE has an idea.
He flew above us as we approached the rock hammers. Before we got to them, he blasted them with an ecto-blast wearing a satisfied smirk
"Oh no. You do not get to leave this world with a smile" Freakshow told Danny angrily
"Why wouldn't I smile? So what if you're the most powerful human on earth? No matter what you do, I'm half ghost and…uh…you're not"
I noticed Jeremy raising his eyebrows. I have to admit, this is rather uncharacteristic of the Danny Fenton we know.
But then again, this is typical Danny Phantom behavior from when I would watch the battles on the News.
"I am the master of all reality" Freakshow pointed out
"Oh sure, but can you do this?" Danny bragged as he stretched to a C shape to avoid a blast
The crowd cheers
"What? NO! He's not the star of this circus! I am! ME!" Freakshow shouted desperately.
What a big baby.
"Ghost powers" Danny bragged as he vanished and reappeared with his hands glowing green "Ghost energy. Ghost! Ghost! Ghost!"
With each 'ghost' he shot the blast and made a smiley face in Freakshow's top hat.
The crowd cheers again
"I WILL NOT BE UPSTAGED BY A GHOST!" Freakshow shouted as he threw a tantrum
"Big baby" Jeremy muttered with an eyeroll.
The crowd Boos and throws trash and food at the giant Freakshow
Danny said something but it was drowned out by the crowd
"Enough! I may be loosing control of the crowd, but I control all reality. And if you think being a half ghost is so cool," Freakshow shouted before pushing a button on the gauntlet after knocking Danny to the ground
"Half?" I asked Jeremy.
He shrugged.
"What do you think of me, now that I'm ALL ghost!" Freakshow asked after having changed himself into a real ghost
Danny grabbed that metal thermos and a blue beam sucked Freakshow into it with the gauntlet falling to the ground.
I heard Cheryl gasp as she looked forward. I looked forward myself and saw that we're heading STRAIGHT for the tub of nuclear waste.
I screamed.
As did everyone else.
This was it.
When we hit, we were in just plain water. I surfaced and noticed that the tub was now a giant rubber ducky pool.
Danny landed on the edge wearing the gauntlet looking at Sam and Tucker frantically
"Are you guys okay?" he asked them before turning to the Foley's, Jeremy, and me " Oh. Hi Mr. and Mrs. Manson. Mr. and Mrs. Foley."
"He's at least polite." Jeremy told me
"True." I agreed. At least THAT part didn't change.
Suddenly, Lydia appeared looking furious
Danny just smirked and turned the glowing yellow gauntlet at her.
"And as for you…" he said.
She then turned into a fish, hammer, apple, and teddy bear before back to normal
She fled screaming
Danny flew up, flashed the gauntlet white, and everything turned back to normal. Then he flew down and two white rings surrounded him turning him back into the Danny Fenton my Sammikins likes.
"Danny!" Jack shouted
"Okay. While the Fentons deal with that," Cheryl said turning to Tucker and Sam. "Would someone PLEASE tell me what the heck is going on here?"
Maurice chuckled at how desperate Cheryl sounded.
"What do you want to know Mom?" Tucker asked innocently
"How Danny Fenton became Danny Phantom in the first place is a good place to start." Maurice asked. "Or what Freakshow has against him"
"The how's easy" Sam said. "Danny got caught in the Fenton portal when it turned on. The ectoplasm got…I guess fused to his DNA."
"And how did you end up ghost fighting young lady?" I demanded wanting to know when and why my daughter took up such a dangerous hobby. Now that we were all safe, I felt the anger I had felt before we were captured coming back, but directed at a more direct source.
Jeremy looked like he agreed, probably still a bit shocked.
"It was Sam's fault the accident happened" Tucker tattled as he pointed to Sam
Sam whacked him on the arm.
"Explain" Jeremy demanded. I don't blame him. Tucker BETTER have a good reason to blame our little girl.
"I talked Danny into going into the portal to check it out." Sam explained
"Were you two alright?" Maurice asked, more Tucker than Sam.
"Yeah. We were at a safe distance." Tucker answered. "And we know what we're doing with the ghost hunting."
"So you can't stop us" Sam said defiantly.
I noticed a bit of guilt in her eyes, but it's not guilt for going behind Pam's and my backs. It's guilt for nearly getting her friend killed and determination for helping him through this.
There's also another VERY familiar look on her face.
I turned to my husband and he looks torn. Sure enough, he recognized the look from when HE was in a relationship that his father didn't want him in.
It hit me suddenly. Jeremy and I were hypocrites.
Before I could give Sam my okay for her possible future relationship with Danny, all went blank.
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When I came back around, I was in the house looking through a catalogue for dresses to order for my daughter so I could swap them out when she was gone.
Jeremy walked into the room.
"Is it a good idea for us to be sending Sam with the Fentons?" he asked.
I shrugged. As uncomfortable with the idea I am, it'll get her out of the house so I can do the remodeling.
