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"Oh great. Just what I needed…" I muttered under my breath. I really hoped that Valerie didn't catch that. Phantom and the Huntress might have a ceasefire, but I was still pretty worrisome about her finding out about me being the person that 'ruined her life.' The other students in the room started screaming and running for the exits. I heard Valerie utter a gasp of surprise, which probably meant that she had heard what the tin can had said, I sighed, hopefully she wouldn't ask too many questions…I stood up and faced the metal ghost that was advancing on our table.
"I am here for what is rightly mine, Ghost boy, now hand it over." He said, a menacing grin on his face. I looked back at Sam, Tucker and Valerie for a moment before looking back at Skulker and holding a few fingers behind my back, giving them a signal to scatter. Valerie, Sam, Tucker and I had gotten into a bind together before, actually it was right after Valerie and I had rescued Danielle together and called a ceasefire. We had to get off of bonehead here's island in the ghost zone because apparently, when you're walking with your friends and a natural portal opens up under your feet, you get sent to one of your most annoying, yet powerful enemy's lair. We 'found out' that Valerie was the Red Huntress then, and she found out that we've been fighting ghosts and in the Ghost Zone before, or rather many times before, and so usually when attacks happen at school I don't usually go ghost unless it is an emergency, It also helps when Valerie takes care of the problem first. I have more time to keep my grades up that way, which I'm keeping at a steady B+ right now. Sam jumped behind me and Tucker and Valerie split into separate areas.
"Sorry Skulker, but I like my pelt where it is." I taunted, jumping up into the air, with a little bit of help from my flight powers, and kicking the ghost in the head with a bit of an ecto-powered foot, the green glow just barely visible to the human eye. The kick sent Skulker crashing into the wall to my right. He grunted in pain as he slammed into the wall head first. I landed back on the ground easily and then took off running to where Valerie was, while Sam went over next to Tucker. I was so glad that we started bringing wrist rays and more thermoses to school, made ghost fighting a lot easier. Once everyone had evacuated the room, and there were no more normal students or teachers in the immediate area, Valerie and I shared a glance and I nodded. She pressed a button on her wristwatch and a bright flash of red light later and Valerie was on her Jet sled in her Huntress outfit. Sam and Tucker had gotten their Rays out and had them pointed at Skulker, who by this time had regained himself. His eyes flashed green and mine mirrored that I'm sure.
"I will have it resting at the foot of my bed Halfa-child!" He shouted. Valerie looked over at me in shock and I gave her a small, deer in the headlights kind of look before Skulker launched himself towards me, ghost guns blazing green with ecto energy. His movements were so quick that it surprised me. Skulker usually played with his prey before going after me for sure. What was going on?! I jumped out of the way, but just barely, I hissed in pain when I felt one of the shots that Skulker let loose graze against my leg. The pain wouldn't be there very long, but it wasn't fun when it happened. I skid to a stop after rolling out of the way of the barreling Skulker, who turned around on a dime and faced our group once again. Valerie went after Skulker after I was out of the way, but she shot me a 'we're gonna talk' look to me as she did so.
"Danny!" Sam and Tucker shouted as I ran over to them. Sam placed a hand on my shoulder as I pulled out a pair of gloves that I had in my pockets. "Skulker seems to be acting a bit differently today…" She said. I looked over where Skulker was. Valerie was pelting him with blasts from her anti-ghost weapons. "I noticed that too." I said softly. "I think my cover might be blown with Valerie too…" I muttered as I pulled the gloves onto my hands. Frostbite had made these gloves for me the last time that I visited him in the Zone. They 'let' me use my powers in my human form. At least that is what all of the people who didn't know my secret would think. In reality they amplify my ghostly powers and let me use them in a more focused manner. It didn't really matter what form I was in, I had gotten so much practice at using my powers outside of just regular ghost fighting that I could use pretty much any of my powers. "Valerie already knows about the Halfa species, because of Danielle and Vlad, and Skulker here wasn't exactly subtle a moment ago." I said. Sam let go of me and she nodded, and then readied her ray. Tucker did the same thing. I instructed them on where I wanted them to go. "Sam, you follow behind me, about five feet will do, Tucker, you go circle around to Skulker's back and help Valerie keep him busy for a moment." The two of them nodded and then followed instructions.
I clapped my hands together, the sound emitted an ecto-shockwave from the impact, causing it to his Skulker and to catch his attention. "Hey Tin Can!" I shouted to him. "Haven't we already opened you enough?" I taunted with a grin on my face. Skulker's facial expression changed into an angry one and he launched himself at me. I let the cold travel through my body to my palms and released a freezing blast at Skulker from my hand. He dodged by a hair's width, but while he was moving out of the way, Sam used her wrist ray to shoot at Skulker and send him flying back towards Tucker and Valerie. "Guys! Incoming!" I shouted, letting them know about the airborne object that was being launched in their general direction. Of course they had already noticed and jumped/flown out of the way.
Valerie had a small ray on her shoulder and she turned and shot the ghost with it. It his Skulker between his shoulder plates and sent him flying face forward onto the ground. He pushed himself up off of the ground. It turns out that his metal nose was crushed in the fall. I snorted out a laugh and grinned, my eyes glowing green for sure this time. "I like the new look Skulker, you should keep it that way!" I said before blasting him with an ecto-beam and sending him into the wall behind him. The wall cracked beneath the force of my attack and Skulker's weight. He looked up at me with a glare in his cold green eyes. "You'll pay for that Ghost Child." He growled out.
"Yeah yeah, but you say that every time, now don't you?" I teased before pulling out my Fenton Thermos, pointing it at Skulker and powering it up. Right before I could press the button to shoot the beam the door to the cafeteria slammed open and Mr. Lancer, our English and Homeroom teacher burst into the room. "The Ghost Of Greylock! What on earth is going on in here?!" He shouted as he ran into the room and saw the state that the cafeteria was in.
"Mr. Lancer!" Sam, Tucker, Valerie and I shouted in sync, and surprise. This was something that I never thought that I would see in all my years at Casper High. There we were, Team Phantom, standing in shock as our teacher barreled himself into the danger area of the school. I acted quickly and sucked Skulker into the thermos without thinking, the ghost cursed at the four of us as he was sucked away. I hit the thermos on the nearest hard surface and told him to shut his yap and then capped the can. We all turned to Lancer and I noticed that the only one who had their mask on was Valerie, so she was probably going to get off scot-free. "Um…Hi…Mr. Lancer…" Tucker said, looking really nervous. I wasn't surprised. We were all on edge from the battle and now we have to deal with Lancer. Wonderful.
"What did you just do to that ghost Mr. Fenton?" He asked, looking me dead in the eye. I could see so many questions swimming around in his eyes, but there also was a speck of realization and understanding, or something…
"Um, well, he's in the thermos." I said, holding it up to show him.
"That's not what I meant , and you know that." He said. I hung my head, here we go again, having to explain all this. I wis- Hoped that we wouldn't have to do this, but we did. I shoved a brave front on and then looked at Lancer again. "We captured it. It was going to destroy the cafeteria more than it did if we hadn't." I stated simply.
"It's true Mr. Lancer." Valerie said. Lancer, who was shocked by the fact that the Huntress was talking to him like she knew him was shocking to all of us. Sam, Tucker and I looked over at Valerie, who floated down on her Jet sled and landed in front of the three of us. She grabbed her helmet and too it off, revealing herself to Lancer. "We're just doing a job that no one else is able to do is all." She said. Lancer looked like he was going to pass out for a moment.
"Valerie! What are you doing?" Tucker asked her in a panic. "Isn't you being Red Huntress supposed to be a secret babe? What are you doing?"
"I was involved in this incident too, I'm not going to get you all in trouble and not take partial responsibility. You guys are my friends, I can't just leave like that now can I? Besides, My dad already knows what I do, and I don't think he'll tell anyone else, Right Mr. Lancer?" She looked over at the slightly overweight teacher and smiled. Lancer looked at the four of us for a second and then sighed. "I would have told your father, but he had told me already about this…"
"Dad!" Valerie shouted. "How could he?" Her face scrunched up in displeasure and she crossed her arms.
"He had your wellbeing in mind is why, Ms. Gray." He said, then he looked over at Me, Sam and Tucker. "Do you three have an explanation for this?" He asked us. "Unless your parents know as well?"
Sam, Tucker and I exchanged looks and I took a step forward. "They don't know, but in case you haven't noticed, my parents are better inventors as opposed to Hunters, Mr. Lancer." I said smoothly, I remembered the explanation and part of me flickered out of visibility for a second. Lancer gasped. "But they do have their moments of carelessness with their inventions, however. So I would rather you keep this a secret from them if you can. They'll probably cause a fuss about us being around, 'ectoplasmic impurities' and try to use one of their decontamination guns on the three of us…" I said, rubbing the back of my neck a bit. "We don't know what the guns do to humans…"
Lancer winced, realizing that I was probably right I'm sure. He seemed to think for a moment and then sighed a rather large sigh. "Yes well…I believe you are probably right on that one." He agreed with me, I could hear soft sighs of relief coming from behind me. "So I guess it wouldn't be appropriate to tell your parents, or Mr. Foley or Ms. Manson's for the same manner, just for the safety of the students who probably just saved the school cafeteria from immediate destruction." He said, and then gave us a smile. "I'm proud of all of you, but I'm going to have to ask…"
"We'll help with clean up, Mr. Lancer," Sam said, smiling at the balding teacher. I agreed with Sam, it was the least we could do for him and the janitors who would have to clean up this huge mess.
"Thank you Miss Manson." He said, "You can all do it during homeroom, which starts in about ten minutes. Just stay here and clean and then you all can head home."
Tucker's eyes nearly bugged out of his head. "Seriously Mr. Lancer?!" He asked, shocked that the teacher would let us leave so early.
"Seriously, Mr. Foley." He said and then looked over at me. "Those are some pretty interesting gloves you have there, Mr. Fenton, did your parents make them?"
I shook my head. "Another friend of mine made them. They mimic a ghost's powers and allow me to use them in a fight against another ghost." I explained.
"Interesting." He said. "Well, I am going to head to the classroom. I have to get to the classroom. I will see the four of you tomorrow in class, and, if I could ask a few more moments of your time during lunch that would be phenomenal." He said, and then left us to clean the mess in the cafeteria.
The four of us were speechless for a moment, but after that moment was over, three breaths could be heard being let out. "Oh man, I thought I was a goner…" Tucker said, scratching the back of his head. Sam nodded. "My mom would probably murder me in cold blood…" Sam said softly, "She'd probably me ship me overseas to a boarding school in England…" I walked over to her and wrapped my arms around her waist. "Mi sekvus vin tutmonde amon.[A]" I said to her in Esperanto, nuzzling the crook of her neck.
"Silentu Danny...[B]" Sam muttered back to me, looking at the ground. I chuckled a bit, her ears were red. She was embarrassed.
Valerie looked over at Sam and I and grinned. "Finally together eh?" She asked, smirking.
"If you must know, yes, we are." I answered calmly.
"Good for you both." She said. "By the way Danny, you have a lot of explaining to do, Halfa-child." She said, looking over at me with a raised eyebrow. I sighed and held Sam close. "Can I explain to you later Valerie? We kinda need to clean the place up before anything else…" I said.
"That's fine. But you're not getting out of it anytime soon, Fenton."
Sam looked up at me. "I'll come with you, Danny." She said. I chuckled a bit. "I'll be fine, Sam, but if you want to come, you can." I said softly to her. "I do want to come, but we can't do that until the Cafeteria is clean." She said, worming her way out of my grip. I reluctantly let her go and then turned to Tucker. "Should we each take a corner?" I asked.
"Sounds like a plan." Tucker said.
[A] I would follow you across the world love.
[B] Be quiet Danny